Never Forget

  

"there is nothing bleak about an encounter with Perl. He is 91, but looks 10 years younger.  

His handshake is strong, his humour warm, his engagement total. And, on this bright morning, in a room at the Jewish Care campus in north London, where he has a “retirement living apartment” close to the Holocaust Survivors’ Centre, he has come ready about the year or more he spent, from the age of 12, as a prisoner in Auschwitz and in the network of Dachau subcamps known as Kaufering nearly eight decades ago. " 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/06/at-12-i-was-in-auschwitz-my-parents-and-seven-siblings-were-murdered-here-is-how-i-built-a-life  

"He would talk about it when he met up with his older brother, Alec; they would reminisce about life in the old country, in the Hungarian town of Makó, where they played in the snow in winter and swam in the Maros river in summer, and remember the family that was taken from them – their mother, their father, their four sisters and three brothers, all murdered by the Nazis"