Holocaust survivors to speak in Saskatoon - The StarPhoenix

By Kendall Latimer, The StarPhoenix

In this Jan. 26, 2015 file picture a person walks near the entrance to the former Nazi Death Camp complex of Auschwitz.

Photograph by: Alik Keplicz , Associated Press

It’s been seventy years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the German Nazi extermination and concentration camp complex.
The anniversary is dark. It’s estimated 11 million people — including 1.1 million children and six million Jews, were killed.
The number of remaining Holocaust survivors shrinks with each passing year. Firsthand accounts are dwindling, noted Simonne Horwitz, a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan history department.
“The stories will never be as powerful as they are when shared by someone who lived through it,” Horwitz said.
Salley Wasserman was a hidden child in Poland. She was four years old when a couple named Mr. and Mrs. Turkin harboured her. Wasserman, who was liberated after seven years, will be the feature speaker at Saskatoon’s Holocaust Memorial on Sunday...Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Holocaust+survivors+speak+Saskatoon/11022097/story.html