For my children, I wrote Trains to Treblinka to help keep the memory of Treblinka alive for your generation. Live your lives. Live your lives well. It has been over seventy-five years since the revolt. Now all who escaped and lived to tell their story are no longer with us, and many of the biographers who interviewed the survivors are deceased. All we have left are their stories—and we need them. It is important to study the past to learn these two lessons: the extent of what humans are capable of doing to each other, and the extent the inner spirit of man can accomplish in response to crisis. And that’s the Treblinka elegy, a crisis of humanity. Learn both lessons. Love all people. And remember that in order to fully love, you must fully forgive.
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