My concern is that the memory won't dry out. It won't be a page in history. Because it was a public park named after a little girl, they started to visualize her. In a way, she's part of them. Something of her is alive.
Memory has a mysterious way of relieving the dead.
It was a presence in the house. Although as an Israeli child she was factually grounded in Shoah history, she described a tremendous gap in her knowledge. We knew every historical fact about the Holocaust, but we lacked something, the emotional knowledge of the Holocaust. Historical books, lectures have their niche, but the live story has a different impact. Unintentionally, there was a negative stigma on survivors.