I spoke my grandmother last week. A cousin of mine had just had a baby. My grandmother told me that this is now K”H the 42nd grandchild/great-grandchild that she has. She said, “I was the only one of my siblings to survive the war. Imagine if all 7 of us had survived, how large our family would be!”
She also told me once that when she went to visit Yad Vashem, although it was hard for her, she did enjoy one aspect of it. It was known that the Nazis kept meticulous records of everything they did to the Jews. Why? Because Hitler had a dream of building a museum to showcase what the Jews were before he’d wiped them out. My grandmother said, “I went to the museum which showed the Holocaust. It’s run by Jews who are alive and well – and the Third Reich exists only in museums now!”