“From the day of my arrest to the day of my liberation, I will tell you my story,” Perahia said. Perahia spoke to the students last week amid a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Perahia told the students he was 9 when six German soldiers stomped upstairs to the family apartment in the coastal town of Saint-Nazaire. They were in a detention camp near the city of Tours when still more German officers separated men from women and children, Perahia told the teens, his voice steady. That’s the thing that will leave a mark, what I will tell my family, my children, if I have any.

Source: thestar February 04, 2020 08:37 UTC