Auschwitz survivor and great-grandson teach TikTok about realities of Holocaust

Interesting history share PO1 William "Chip" Nagel ..! Quite a story from the past.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Thanks for posting. Awesome and heartwarming story. People need to know. Not so sure the recent generations get much more than Anne Frank, which is good, but not enough.

Am currently reading a copy of a very well researched, well-written book the author sent me, for the purpose of doing a review. It is in e-book form, but perhaps will be in bound form, eventually. The woman wrote about the experiences of her husband's family during those years, after trying to do genealogical work to document the Grandparents in Germany. Have only just started the book. As it turned out, from the prologue, the parents did not talk of the times before her husband and his parents escaped to America to avoid the camps. None of their kids or grandkids knew anything about that history. Most of the extended family lost their lives in the camps. Investigating also lead her to find documents that trace the family back beyond the 1600s.

Losing most of an extended family is probably the story of many more folks than most realize. Many of those who survived or escaped before being put in camps are in their 70s-90s depending on whether or not they were children or adults at the time.

It takes decades for some folks to speak of past traumas, if ever. The woman's great grandson is a real blessing.