Post by Liesbeth Heenk

NEW RELEASE in the series Holocaust Survivor Memoirs (book 24). Follow the life story and lessons of Holocaust survivor Jan Blumenstein in The Boy in the Back, as told to Fern Lebo. Born in Czechoslovakia, Jan was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau when he was 16, along with the 6,500 Jewish residents of his natal Nové Zámky. Jan, who sadly died a few months ago, was a survivor with a word of caution for the world, and he calls to be heard.   Jan chose to tell his story because he believes it was the right time for it to be heard. When he was a boy, he didn’t pay attention to the signs of growing unrest and escalating violence that were around him. When the Holocaust started, those who weren’t affected didn’t speak out to stop it. Thousands of kind and brave people helped, and Jan calls them heroes. But many more did not… Let us learn from Jan’s experience and not let history repeat itself.   “Sadly, we had underestimated the brutality of our enemies and overestimated the compassion of our friends.”   https://mybook.to/P4twX6 Fern Lebo #Holocaustsurvivor