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Visited Hiroshima over a decade ago during a school trip, and had a local guide that was a survivor. Very powerful.

As a teenager we also visited concentration camps on a school trip, and a survivor joined the trip from Norway to Germany. We got to know him a bit during the week long trip, and there was a session where he told his story. I'll never forget this, and I think it affects me to this day.

Soon we will have no Time Witnesses left.

Edit: I remembered a very specific anecdote he told, about how him randomly having learned to knit helped when in a concentration camp, as some officer wanted something to be made, and he then could sit inside and do that instead of working himself to death in the quarry. Based on this I managed to find his name again now.

Haakon Sørbye, thanks for telling us your story.