Iheartstreaking

This will get buried and most likely not answered, but I saw recently that young Jews are getting the same tattoos as Holocaust survivors - the numbers on the arm. They are doing it because there are fewer and fewer living survivors and the tattoo acts as a reminder of the Holocaust. As an American Jew, I was thinking about getting one but I feel it would be misconstrued by way too many people. As a survivor yourself, how would you feel if you saw a young Jew with the numbers tattooed on their arms as a sign of remembrance?

I thought your comment about the night of rain ("It was the longest ten hours of my life.") was very telling. On an episode of "I Shouldn't Be Alive," a couple gets lost in the Amazon rainforest for about a week, and one night a rainstorm hits. The woman said it was by far the worst night of her life, and that if given the choice between reliving it or dying, she'd rather die.