In My Mind's Eye: Holocaust survivor narratives in many forms -- 25th Annual Exhibit Commemorating Yom HaShoah (April 16, 2015)
The 25th Annual Yom HaShoah exhibit commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day features selected examples in a variety of forms of survivor testimony from the collections of The James P. Adams Library.
[Dedication page]
When the Pharoah restored the chief butler to his position as foretold by Joseph in his interpretation of the butler's dream, he forgot Joseph. "Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him" (Genesis 40:23). Why does the Torah use this repetitive language? It is obvious that if the butler forgot Joseph, he did not remember him. Yet, both verbs are used, 'remembering' and 'forgetting'. "The Torah, in using this language, is teaching us a very important lesson," said the Rabbi of Bluzhov, Rabbi Israel Spira, to his Hasidim. "There are events of such overbearing magnitude that one ought not to remember them all the time, but one must not forget them either. Such an event is the Holocaust."
Additional Mixed Age Accounts
No one can speak with certainty of
the figures, but it is most likely that four to five hundred thousand European
Jews survived the German occupation in the years 1939-1945.These fell, generally into three categories:
the some 75,000 who had survivedthe
camps; those who had lived in hiding or on false identity papers; those who
survived in the woodsfighting with
partisan and guerilla groups……the United States took in the second largest
(after Israel) in the 92,000 or so Jews admitted during the post-war period,
1945-1951.
Quote from New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust living in America