International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014
Monday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day (in the U.K., Holocaust Memorial Day).
The World War II generation of the de Wind family was immensely and disproportionately affected by the Holocaust.
On the occasion of this solemn day, I want to recount two stories -- retell is a better word since both have been published before.
The first one was about one relative, Louis de Wind, who was on "the last train to Auschwitz."
This one is about all the de Winds who suffered under the Nazis and paid a heavy price for being Jewish.
But, more, it is about what "humanity" can do to humanity if we -- you and I -- allow it.
I don't claim to be Jewish, although most of my paternal ancestors were Jewish.
As a matter of fact, the earliest de Wind documented in my family tree is not even a de Wind, but rather a Levy -- my great-great-grandfather, Alexander Levy, who was born around 1765 in The Hague (then, 's-Gravenhage) and assumed the name de Wind in 1811.
more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dorian-de-wind/holocaust-remembrance-day_b_4671068.html
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