{"id":18833,"date":"2017-11-01T18:55:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T22:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=18833"},"modified":"2017-11-01T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T22:55:19","slug":"libman-to-share-harrowing-story-of-survival-for-holocaust-education-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/libman-to-share-harrowing-story-of-survival-for-holocaust-education-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Libman to share harrowing story of survival for Holocaust Education Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

To this day, Faigie Libman can\u2019t bring herself to own a pair of white gloves.
\nAs a child growing up in Lithuania during the Second World War, her young life \u2013 and those of her family members \u2013 were turned upside down on June 4, 1941 when government directives came down ordering her family, and countless others, into a ghetto.
\nLife was bad in the ghetto, she says, but it soon became a lot worse when her family was ordered out to Democracy Square to be counted.
\nThe sight of the official standing on the mound, holding a whip in his white-gloved hand, a dog at his side, is a picture still vivid in her mind, as he divided her family up into different camps, Faigie and grandmother and parents, separated from her grandfather and aunt.
\nTheir first stop was a labour camp where children were often left behind with the elderly who couldn\u2019t work as they set out for their forced labour.
\n\u201cOne day, my mother was waking me early, early in the morning and she said she had permission to take me to work with her,\u201d Ms. Libman recalled in a video shared by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies last year. \u201cI went with the men in the trucks far away from the labour camp to work at the aerodrome. We were there for the whole day and I remember very late at night we were taken back into the labour camp. I will remember as long as I live what greeted us as we got into that labour camp. I can still in my head hear the wailing.
\n\u201cWhat happened that day when I was at work with all the men and my mother, trucks came and collected all the children and all the old people. It was labelled the Kinderaction and without even knowing I am sure the parents knew where those trucks went. The word Auschwitz, everyone heard without any communications and later on the parents found out they were all taken to Auschwitz. To this day I do not have one friend from my youth.\u201d
\nMs. Libman will share her harrowing story of survival with the Aurora community next Thursday, November 9, to mark Holocaust Education Week.
\nThe Aurora United Church will host Ms. Libman from 7 \u2013 9 p.m. at Trinity Anglican Church, where she will speak of her experiences in the Kovno Ghetto, slave labour and concentration camps.
\nAurora United Church is just one community group holding special events to commemorate Holocaust Education Week.
\nActivities begin Tuesday, November 7, from 7 \u2013 9 p.m. as Amnesty International Aurora-Newmarket welcomes guest speaker and human rights expert Professor Lee Jacobs of York University.
\nThe topic of his conversation is, \u201cThe Holocaust & Human Rights: What Rights Jews Lost in WWII, the Impact of the Holocaust on the Passing of an International Human Rights Charter, and the Legacy of Both.\u201d The talk will also take place at Trinity Anglican Church (79 Victoria Street).
\nBoth events are free and open to the public.
\n\u201cI go now from school to school, they send me and I do not say no,\u201d Ms. Libman shared with the Centre. \u201cI go because I want to speak to young people and we have to tell people what Hitler did. My motto is: If there is hatred in your heart there is no room for love.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To this day, Faigie Libman can\u2019t bring herself to own a pair of white gloves.
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