How to Keep the Memories of Holocaust Survivors Alive.

The article focuses on the importance of Holocaust remembrance through firsthand testimony, particularly highlighting the author's use of his mother's survivor testimony in his teaching at Cornell and Columbia universities. His mother, Dr. Ada Bimko, survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and was a key witness at the 1945 British military tribunal prosecuting Nazi war criminals. The author emphasizes that as survivors pass away, it is crucial for subsequent generations to preserve their memories not as abstract statistics but as individual human stories, ensuring that the lessons of hatred and genocide remain a lasting warning. He calls on descendants and those who have encountered survivors to actively transmit these personal histories to future generations.