"The children of some of the more than 100 Holocaust survivors still living in Northeast Florida are now telling the stories of their parents — European Jews who somehow survived the Nazi concentration and labor camps, set about building families of their own, came to America and dealt with memories of an unspeakable horror that lingered throughout their lives.
It’s painful and exhausting for them to talk about it, but they want you to know of their parents as the people they were: tough, scarred, generous. Survivors."
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Also, here's this account of Holocaust survivors receiving the COVID vaccine on Holocaust Remembrance Day:
'We owe this to them’: Shoah survivors in vaccine spotlight
Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia got their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine Wednesday, an acknowledgement of past suffering and a tribute to resilience 76 years after Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
"'Throughout their lives, they have shown mighty strength of spirit, but in the current crisis, many have sadly died alone and in pain, or are now fighting for their lives, and many others are suffering from extreme isolation,' European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor said. 'We have a duty to survivors, to ensure that they are able to live their last years in dignity, without fear, and in the company of their loved ones.'"
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