Young students hear still-vivid memories of Holocaust survivor David Lenga at Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley.
It was a sobering, overcast morning for 1,000-plus middle- and high-school students on Holocaust Remembrance Day, as a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp shared with students his formidable years in several camps and ghettos in his native Poland.
After hearing remarks from Holocaust survivor David Lenga, students tour the exhibition, Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library April 17, 2023. More than 1,000 Los Angeles-area students were on hand for the event. It’s been 84 years since Nazi leaders unleashed violence on the Jewish people, attacking them in their homes, burning synagogues and shattering 7,500 plus Jewish-owned commercial establishments.Yet years later, despite his sense of fear and his suicidal thoughts at times, he explained that while he was freed by American soldiers at a farmhouse in Germany, he alone had to define what that freedom meant.
“We have had Holocaust survivors come to the school in the past, but they are starting to pass, so is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Adler said. “And it’s personal for me; my mother’s entire family was murdered during the Holocaust.” His classmate, Angelica Dialogo, 14, said it was hard to hear how cruel people can be to other human beings, lacking all pity for them.
Hundreds of personal items such as suitcases, eyeglasses and shoes that belonged to Auschwitz deportees are on display, along with concrete posts from a fence at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp, fragments of original prisoners’ barrack from the Auschwitz III-Monowitz Camp, and a desk and other possessions of the first and longest-serving Auschwitz commandant, Rudolf Höss.
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