We tend to talk about the victims of the Shoah in the context of the entire community of Six Million. But the people who died in the Holocaust were not named "Six Million." Each one of them was an individual.
Among those slaughtered by the Nazi's were mothers worrying about their children's Homework, young girls with crushes on young boys, young boys who cared more about soccer than young girls. Rabbis who taught, Fathers who worked hard to see that their kids had everything. There are six-million individual stories in the Shoah, only a tiny part of those stores involves how they died. It is so important to remember how they lived, and how we are ALL so much poorer because their lives were cut short. That's why Yad Vashem and other Holocaust Museums are so very important, they help us remember their LIVES as well as how they died.
Below is a family Album given last year to Pini Beeri and Riki Ariel, they are the sons of Pearale Boden Berezowsky, was one of two siblings to survive the Shoah. The Album was discovered by workers who were demolishing Pearale's childhood home in Poland. The workers gave the Album to a history teacher. The Teacher traced the sons down through the database at Yad Vashem.
The two "boys" delivered the book of family pictures to their mother, six hours before her death. A month after the book was found the pictures were published in Ynet and I have copied them below:
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