Last week, Frieda Scherer, a 109 year-old Holocaust survivor, passed away. This is the letter she left

Last week, Frieda Scherer, a 109 year-old Holocaust survivor, passed away.
This is the letter she left for her granddaughters:

Dear Erika and Polina,
We don’t have much time left together in this world.
I was fortunate to live a long and good life, especially in the last two decades, after I met you.
But it wasn’t always that way. Just after finishing my studies, my country closed its borders, and I was sent to the Ebensee concentration camp.
I went through horrors I still cannot speak about, and I will take them with me to the grave.
Hunger, disease, and infection ran rampant in every corner, but above all, despair.
My life was saved by a miracle, likely because I was a young doctor, and the camp commander saw me as having special talent. That’s also how my father and brother survived.

I held onto the hope that one day, it would all end, and we would live in a better world - a world of peace, where all people live in freedom, equality, unity, and solidarity.
Sadly, I’ve come to understand that I will not live to see that dream come true.
Our people, who endured the most unimaginable cruelty, have chosen the wrong path.

Just a few kilometers separate you from those who are now enduring horrors no less severe, and the images coming from there take me 80 years back - to the moment the camp was liberated, and I saw my brother for the last time since we were deported.
A Muselmann - living dead, no expression on his face, no spirit left in his body. That was the moment I realized: there is no God.

This is the reality today for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian women and children, and also for the hostages.
You may not be able to save the world, but I am proud of your dedication and of how you are continuing the tradition of our family by becoming doctors yourselves.
I am sure you will be able to bring some light into this world through your actions, helping the wounded and the sick, in body and in spirit, and offering aid, compassion, and kindness to anyone in need.
My dream will not come true in my lifetime, but maybe in yours.

With love,
Frieda ❤️

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