Myrna’s two sons and grandchildren knew little about their mother and grandmother’s wartime past for a long time. They never dared to ask. Son Michael remembers that it was a given: “Mom has been in the camps and it was terrible. If you asked you got an answer, but she didn’t talk about it herself.”
Myrna started talking about her experiences during the war at a late age. Together with her husband, who survived the war in hiding, she tells what happened at schools. “The world must not forget what was done to the Jews,” she says. That gives her the strength to share her story about the Holocaust.
The fact that her grandchildren have come to Bergen-Belsen means a lot to Myrna. This is also a special moment for them, at the place where their grandmother’s painful past suddenly comes very close.
In September last year, the Holocaust Names Monument in Amsterdam was unveiled with all the names of the Dutch victims. Look around the monument in the special below. Twenty stories behind the names on the stones are also highlighted.
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