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(Anna Walinska continues)

The words of a young girl, "It is so very important that you have this showing. My mother is a survivor, and so it has meaning for me."

A man refuses to accept a catalogue with these bitter words, "I don't need it. I know every one of these paintings by heart. I was there." Later, on leaving, he shakes my hand in silence, eyes filled with tears.

And just one more anecdote - a recent conversation with a woman who at fifteen years of age escaped from a French detention home for children leading 31 children to Switzerland, the youngest of them 18 months old. She shakes her head and whispers over and over, "This is how it was". We embrace, no longer strangers. We are all survivors and victims in our hearts to the end of our days.

As Elie Wiesel concludes, "So as not to betray ourselves by betraying the dead, we can only open ourselves to their silenced memories. And listen."

If there is time I should like to express my deep thanks and appreciation to Father Richard Mann and to Avram Kampf for their splendid forwards to the catalogue of Holocaust.