May 1, 2003

Survivors

It took two New Jersey teenagers to arrange the reunion of Harry and Hanne, who hadn't seen each other since 1938, when they lived in the same apartment building in Karlsruhe, Germany. George Will tells the story of how the war forced them on their separate paths, and a program called "Adopt-A-Survivor" resulted in their lunch date this week in Washington, D.C.

With Holocaust denial still a scourge to be dealt with, this program, in which the young people of 2003 commit to telling the stories of the Holocaust in 2045, when all the survivors will be gone, seems a worthwhile step in the right direction.

Posted by dan at May 1, 2003 12:16 PM