Stories of Survival: What is Six Million to You?

by Michelle . · 2009-06-02 19:53:00 UTC
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"If you talk about numbers, 11 million, 6 million, 1.5 million, they lose their meaning. Think about someone you love, that you cannot imagine living without. One person, dying 6 million times -- then the Holocaust and the pain has some meaning to you."

--- Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster, speaking to high school students in Illinois.

Michelle . has been involved in various activist endeavors, including the Teach Against Genocide pilot campaigns.
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