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  • I Survived the Warsaw Ghetto. Here Are the Lessons I’d Like to Pass On. (an Oldie)

    02/09/2020 5:08:16 PM PST · by jonascord · 11 replies
    Pocket, republished from the Guardian ^ | September 5, 2018 | Stanisław Aronson
    Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel stated in 2018 that “when the generation that survived the war is no longer here, we’ll find out whether we have learned from history.” As a Polish Jew born in 1925, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, lost my family in the Holocaust, served in a special operations unit of the Polish underground, the Home Army, and fought in the Warsaw uprising of 1944, I know what it means to be at the sharp end of European history – and I fear that the battle to draw the right lessons from that time is in danger of...