Many Holocaust survivors vowed to never set foot again inside Auschwitz-Birkenau. Others are too poor or weak to go. But Ralph Hakman, at 94, keeps returning. This is why:
was dedicated five years later at Hakman’s synagogue, Temple Beth Am. Made up of wall-sized cement blocks bridged by the bima, it depicted the names of ghettos and extermination camps in Hebrew. Carved in English was the phrase, “We shall not forget.”
“We’re really not normal people, us survivors,” he said. “So we had to be around each other because we understood.” Plucked one time for a new assignment, he waited in a building with other prisoners. He heard someone say “” and jumped out a window to run back to his barracks. The word was for prisoners tasked with disposing of bodies from crematoriums. Hakman had heard the Nazis murdered each group ofLike all survivors, he had his share of harrowing tales.
“I rarely had to explain that story in full to a survivor,” Hakman said. “They understood it without me even saying it.” He went again in 2015 after marrying his current wife, Barbara Zerulik. A Jew whose family immigratedBut each time, and each year upon his return, there were fewer people to tell about his visits.
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