Sunday, August 7, 2022

Times Changed

An obituary in Canadian newspaper, tells of a Holocaust survivor returning to visit the concentration camps:

“When, in the 1980s, Celine returned to Teresienstadt with her husband Maximilien, they were stopped at the ticket counter. ‘Last time I was here,’ Celine told the ticket vendor, ‘I got in for free.’”

A similar anecdote about another survivor who returned to Auschwitz. At the ticket counter, he rolled up his sleeve, showed the number tattooed on his arm, and asked, “do I get an alumni discount?