How can we forge a future free of the wounds of the past? Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor and many others invite you to a day of seeking and dialog.

This event will be held on 21 August 2010, at the European Youth Education and Meeting Centre in Weimar (EJBW)

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When I was fourteen or fifteen years old, we spoke about the Holocaust in school. One of my teachers told us that his grandfather had died in a concentration camp. I was very shocked, and talked about it with my mother at home. She said, “Your grandfather was also in Auschwitz, but as a perpetrator.” That was all she said. I felt the floor falling out from under my feet...
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I feel honoured to be the daughter of a German and a Jew, because their story is one of redemption. I hope that by telling it, I may kindle a spark of healing in others. I’m proud of my German heritage and although the horrors of the past should not be forgotten, we need not carry them like chains forever...
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My father, who is a Jewish holocaust survivor, sent me his translation of part of a prayer religious Jews around the world say before going to bed: "I herewith forgive all those who have angered or taunted me, all those who have sinned against my person, my wealth, my possessions or my honor..."
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As I sat by my German grandfather's deathbed in a hospital in Hamburg some years ago, he became very distraught and kept shouting to me to take the picture of Hitler off the wall. I told him there was no picture of Hitler there. "Oh yes there is, take it down, they've hung it up in the church and I'm not going there again..."
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I can still remember the first time I walked past the black swastika sprayed on the wall with spray paint, large and boldly. As a ninth grader, I had just moved to the North Rhine Valley with my parents from the USA and could not believe it. So all the rumours I had heard were true — Germany really was full of Neo-Nazis...
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