Yona Zeldis McDonough
“I think most Jewish kids know the details of the Holocaust when they’re young.”
“I think most Jewish kids know the details of the Holocaust when they’re young.”
In the early 1940s, twenty-five young female inmates of Auschwitz—mostly Jewish—were chosen to design, cut and sew beautiful clothes in a dedicated salon for elite Nazi women. Their skills kept them alive.
Trying to regain my bearings, I clicked on the Yad Vashem link. There, staring right back at the screen for the first time in my life, my grandmother revealed herself to me.
“For an entire culture of people who recite ‘never again/le-olam lo,’ you’d think we’d recognize the signs when it is, in fact, happening again.”