Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
We often find ourselves asking the same difficult questions about history's most profound atrocities: How could this happen? Why didn't anyone stop it? This isn't just an academic curiosity; it's a deep human reflex, a quiet unease that surfaces when we confront the incomprehensible. For Hédi Fried, a survivor of Auschwitz, these questions were not theoretical. For decades, she dedicated her life to answering them, not with easy explanations, but with the weight of lived experience, facing the same inquiries from students and strangers, year after year. This episode explores why these questions persist, what they reveal about our capacity for both cruelty and compassion, and the quiet, persistent courage it takes to bear witness, even when the answers are painful. It's about the moral imperative to keep asking, and the profound lessons embedded in the echoes of memory.