Opinion

Here’s how we can preserve the dignity of aging Holocaust survivors

The Flatbush Jewish Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., hosts gatherings for Holocaust survivors and volunteers who pr

By Sandi Bachom

“I’m happy to be in Auschwitz, if I wouldn’t be happy I’d still be in Auschwitz, might as well be happy”

— Werner Reich, Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944
In 1944, the year I was born, Werner Reich was a teenager in the Nazi death camp Aus