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HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR REMEMBERS
WPR News - Holocaust survivor remembers
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Friday April 20, 2012
by Chuck Quirmbach
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(Photos by
Alverno College & Chuck Quirmbach)
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Just as many World War Two military veterans are dying every year, so are survivors of the Holocaust. One of the remaining survivors talked about her experience
this week, as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Raye David was a teenager living in Poland during World War Two when the German Army invaded. Not long after she began to hear about or witness various atrocities against her fellow Jews.
The Nazis shot David's father and thousands of others in a nearby forest. David and her mother were sent to labor camps and eventually the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. David says thousands more people died there, and others were humiliated.
Late in the war, British troops liberated the camp. David says she survived with the help of God, and the fact that her mother was with her.
The two eventually moved to Milwuakee where David married and helped raise four children. She says she has stayed positive about her life, partly for her children's sake.
But that doesn't mean the 84 year-old Milwaukee resident likes everything she sees in the world. After her speech at Alverno college Thursday, David was asked if the "Never Again" phrase about the Holocaust has come true. She says it is a beautiful phrase, but you only need to watch television or read a newspaper to see that it's not working.
Historians estimate about 125-thousand Jewish Holocaust survivors are still living in the U.S., and all of them are now over age 65. Raye David and some other survivors are due to speak again on Sunday at the Jewish Community Center in suburban Milwaukee.
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