{"id":401,"date":"2011-09-27T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/?p=401"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:08:02","slug":"autumn-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelastalbum.org\/content\/autumn-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Message from the Director<\/p>\n

October 2011<\/p>\n

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Twenty-five years.
\nIt\u2019s been quarter of a century since I first saw these photos found at Auschwitz.<\/p>\n

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October 1986. I was on a special trip to Eastern Europe, then still under Communist control, when I got separated from the group. Auschwitz had already been closed for the day, and I was alone. Hoping to find my group, I frantically began to run from building to building, searching, terrified, trying to find anyone alive in this \u2018Citadel of Death,\u2019 as my friend, survivor Henry Skorr called it. <\/p>\n

When an Auschwitz employee motioning with a finger, I entered a locked room, and saw beautiful photos carried into Auschwitz by those deported there. <\/p>\n

These photos were to change my life…I just didn\u2019t know it yet.<\/p>\n

Twenty-five years ago, if someone said I would still be thinking about these Auschwitz photos–let alone researching their stories, teaching about them and almost \u2018living\u2019 with them–well frankly, I would have thought them insane.<\/p>\n

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Yet here I am. And here you are.<\/p>\n

It is now many stories, many lives, many years later, and new research continues to emerge, just as new minds continue to be opened.<\/p>\n

I believe that, together, we can make a difference by learning the history and remembering the lives–but not only remembering–by making sure that our knowledge links memory to action. I am hopeful, even confident, that together in our small and big ways, as individuals and as groups, we can work toward creating a world of tolerance, a world of justice, a world of hope. At the conclusion of a Tolerance Seminar I taught in Cyprus to Palestinian and Israeli educators, an Israeli superintendent of schools corrected me when I spoke about ‘Teaching Tolerance in the Classroom” and said, “No, Tolerance is not enough. We must go further; we must work to create a world of love. <\/p>\n

To that, I can only say, Amen.<\/p>\n

Ann Weiss, Director, Eyes from the Ashes Foundation<\/p>\n

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