Zikaron BaSalon: Remembering the Shoah | DW News
Everything is in place for the Zika run bustle on an evening of her members. In someone's living room Hannah go for. It is hosting tonight's gathering together with the young organizers the eight-year-old has written a children's book about her life it shows pictures of the Polish couple that hit her and her mother from the Nazis. She'll talk about this today. Like a bicycle on the cell alone for me. These evenings provide a link to the younger generation. It's something personal it's wide-ranging and we talk about everything as equals this type of gathering has grown in popularity over the last few years and that says a lot. Batum le marché Madame la him a warm welcome. The young people arranged to meet here through friends or online the privately organized evenings take place every year around the time of the official days of commemoration. What sense these gatherings apart is the personal interaction between the generations. This project gives us an opportunity for young people to meet Holocaust survivor and then have a talk a real talk about Holocaust and what does it mean in our generation in these days because the Holocaust was a long time ago the events of more than 70 years ago suddenly become palpable as Hannah Gulf read describes her childhood in Poland in the 1930s how her father said goodbye to her before going into hiding she never saw him again Hannah and her mother survived because a Polish family hid them from the Nazis for two years most of the others in her village died in concentration camps initially the salt when I meet these young people I feel that I have one that I survived and succeeded in sharing these experiences with others so they will remember and pass on the memories the Showa because it is a part of our life they also talked about the present and what their grandparents experiences mean for their own lives and for the future it's not something that is far enough away to be forgotten but I do worry about my children and my grandchildren in the future how they will remember this event it's also very important to Hanna go Freight that her story lives on and these evenings help ensure that it does.