“yeah wade?”

"yeah wade?”

Remember those who survived the Holocaust only to go “home” to communities that still wanted them dead; communities often filled with former Nazis and Nazi collaborators. Many of these Holocaust survivors were murdered in pogroms and riots. According to Yad Vashem, “Antisemitic gangs murdered approximately 1,500 Jewish survivors in Poland alone, in the first months after the liberation.”

Remember those who survived torture and medical experimentation in the Camps, only to die some time post-liberation of the aftereffects.

Remember those who survived the Holocaust only to die of illnesses previously contracted in the Camps; or to die, in their weakened state, of starvation and exposure to the elements.

Remember those who survived the Holocaust only to be sent back to prison – sometimes in the very same concentration camps from which they had just been liberated – to finish serving out their terms for violating Paragraph 175, often dying there.

Remember those who survived the Holocaust, only to take their own lives in its aftermath.