Naftali Fürst, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, is returning to Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp. Fürst was 12 years old when he arrived at Auschwitz in 1943 and remembers the horrors he witnessed. He is sharing his story and reflecting on the importance of remembering the past.
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“For 60 years, I didn’t talk about the Holocaust, for 60 years I didn’t speak a word of German even though it’s my mother tongue,” said Fürst. He spent ages 9 to 12 in four different concentration camps, including Auschwitz. His parents had planned to jump off of the cattle car on the way to the camp, but people were packed so tightly they couldn’t reach the doors.
“We had this command from my father: ‘You must adapt and survive, and even if you’re suffering, you must come back,’” Fürst recalled. Toward midnight on Oct. 7, Peleg’s neighbors sent word that the family had survived. They spent almost 20 hours locked inside their safe room with no food or ability to communicate. Her husband’s parents, who both lived on Kfar Aza, were killed.“It’s awful and terrible and a catastrophe, and hard to describe, but it’s not a Holocaust,” he said.
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