How can we keep the memory of the Holocaust alive?

‘If people like me do not proclaim their experiences for others to hear, then future generations will not learn the lessons of these, perhaps the darkest, moments of our history,’ said Freda Wineman, who survived Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps and dedicated much of her life after the second world war to sharing her story. Her death earlier this month at the age of 98 meant not only the loss of a warm and much-admired individual but also that of a powerful witness to the horrors unleashed by Nazi Germany. As the Holocaust fades from living memory into history, Wineman’s story has lost nothing of its relevance, but new ways of telling it will have to be found.

The power of survivor testimony lies in its ability to create empathy when the raw fact that 6 million men, women and children were murdered during the Holocaust remains a statistic beyond real comprehension.