The Son of a Holocaust Survivor Remembers
The Son of a Holocaust Survivor Remembers Melcher de Wind, my distant cousin, has mixed feelings about “ herdenkings,” or commemorations. To him, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021 marks the end of a year full of commemorations of the Holocaust and his beloved father, Eddy de Wind, who wrote his memoir in real-time during the 16 months he spent in Nazi captivity during World War II just because he was a Jew. One year ago, Melcher’s family published “Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival from Within the Camp,” a book of those memoirs translated for the first time into English and now...
Source: jewishjournal.com