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Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities. The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States. He felt it was important to remember and share the past so as not to make the same mistakes in the future, and also felt it was his duty to give something back since his family was spared. He gave an annual talk at local high schools about Denmark’s participation during the war called, The Miracle of Denmark: The Rescue of the Danish Jews from Annihilation. He was part of a Danish American club that gave scholarships to Danes wishing to study in America, and also was part of annual interfaith Holocaust memorial observances where survivors spoke about their personal Holocaust stories at churches and temples. My father gave a great deal of his time to talk about his Holocaust experiences. He eventually came to the United States, spending several years in Texas before moving on to California. My father and his brother made it to Sweden, and after the war back to Denmark. My grandmother survived, and she and other internees were liberated from Terezin in 1945 through a deal made by the Swedish Red Cross. Among those who did not escape, but were sent in cattle cars to concentration camps, were my grandmother and great aunt and uncle. The Danes not only helped them reach Sweden by fishing boats, where they were assisted by Swedes, but they took care of their homes and businesses while the refugees were gone. All but about 700 of the 7000 escaped to Sweden. Word quickly spread however, among the Jewish families about the plan hours before the midnight raid. My dad was one of the Jews in Denmark who were to have been rounded up on Oct. Shoah Fountation Testimony for Bent Lernø He was interviewed by the Shoah Foundation and his story can be viewed online with about 3000 others that have given their testimony. He used his personal story of escape, and of my grandmother’s story of capture and internment to teach children about the Holocaust. He frequently spoke about the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah, highlighting Denmark’s participation and resistance during the war. My father Bent Lernø, who was Danish and Jewish, was very aware of his role as an educator of younger generations.
I have a personal connection to Yom HaShoah as my own family history is part of the narrative.
It also a day to reflect on what we can do to educate ourselves to never let a tragedy like this happen again. It is a day to honor and remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism. The United Nations chose this day as it was the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This Saturday, January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah.
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