Holocaust Remembrance: How To Keep Survivors' Stories Alive

York Minster Commemorates International Holocaust Day With 600 Candles — YORK, ENGLAND - JANUARY 23: York Minster staff light some of the 600 candles shaped as a Star of David and set out on the floor of the Chapter House of York Minster as part of a commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day at York Minster on January 23, 2020 in York, England. The ceremony in the Minster is part of events in the UK and internationally marking Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27. This year marks the 75th anniversary since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945 which was the largest Nazi death camp. The Holocaust genocide took place during World War II in Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany where aided by its collaborators they systematically murdered some six million European Jews. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Hannah Uebele is a producer for Under the Radar with Callie Crossley and previously worked as associate producer for Boston Public Radio. She graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in English and Environmental Studies. She's a proud Delawarean but has found herself saying "wicked" more and more often, so the Bostonian metamorphosis is well underway.Contact: hannah_uebele@wgbh.org

May 15, 2020

Updated August 07, 2023

In January of this year, hundreds of Holocaust survivors gathered at Auschwitz to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp. The survivors and their children rededicated themselves to remembering the horror of the Holocaust, even as a Pew study confirms that nearly 3 in 10 Americans say they are not sure how many Jews died in the Holocaust.

With anti-Semitism resurging in the United States and around the world, how important is it that survivors’ stories be told? And what should the next generations do to keep their stories alive? Three authors, whose lives have been shaped by the Holocaust, share their stories with us:

Helen Epstein, journalist, author and editor of her late mother’s memoir, "Franci's War: A Woman's Story of Survival."

Bernice Lerner, senior scholar at Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility, and author of "All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen."