What Holocaust? New generation is ignorant of history

[Behind the Aegis]

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Years ago, I got the idea for a novel about the last living survivor of the Holocaust. He would be a child survivor, born in 1939 as a hidden child in a Jewish ghetto, and would live there until his family went to Auschwitz. How a little boy managed to survive that place after losing his parents is the stuff of novels, and it is.

It’s titled “The Last Witness,” and I published it last year.

Along with flashbacks showing how the worst memories of the protagonist’s life occurred before he was 5 years old, the book describes his contemporary struggle in the future, the year 2039, when he is 100 years old. The world of 2039 is one in which people are pretty ignorant and complacent as far as the Holocaust is concerned.

One publisher said he had to “suspend disbelief” with my premise that a generation down the road would know so little about the Holocaust, which prompted me to do a video on the subject. Last fall I interviewed university students in Toronto, asking them about the Holocaust and World War II. What they didn’t know would, literally, fill a book.

Here we are in April 2015, with Yom Hashoah commemorating those who perished in the most heinous crime of human history. At the same time, today — never mind 2039 — it seems that young people know next to nothing.

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This is hardly surprising, but interesting nonetheless. Also, the article is two pages (just in case).

[MosheFeingold]

1. Perhaps re-do Fidler on the Roof

With a Kardashian as Yenta.