Columnist Roy S. Johnson remembers Holocaust survivor Max Steinmetz, who had shared his wrenching experiences with all who would hear.
A few weeks later, I was blessed to sit in Steinmetz’s dining room as he recalled heinous details of his hell. Shared more vividly than a 90-year-old mind should be able to recall—unless those memories are seared into a space of grey matter that never forgets. Cannot forget.
His parents and sister were waved in the other direction—toward those deemed unable to work. SS soldiers held Steinmetz back from saying goodbye. “One morning my brother said. ‘I can’t go to work; I can’t get up,’” Steinmetz said. “I grabbed him but he simply couldn’t move. If you stayed behind, they had a group of prisoners assigned every morning to go to barracks and pick up all those who could not work. They were considered dead. We had a hospital; it was a joke, but I knew the doctor there. He said, ‘You know there’s nothing I can do, just go to work and I will take care of your brother.
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