The Numbers on Her Arm

Monday, January 27th, 2020 marked the 75thAnniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz (a German concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland). The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is in commemoration of the day, January 27th1945, when Allied troops found nearly 8,000 sick and starving prisoners and liberated them.
This liberation happened nearly a decade before my birth and as a young child many of the adults in my family spoke in hushed tones about relatives that weren’t lucky enough to...