A grandfather remembers a time when Jews had no one to defend them. Now, he, his son, and his grandchild have all served in the IDF, carrying that promise of “never again.”
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and honor the survivors who carried their stories forward. Those stories are not only testimonies of loss, but show resilience and the meaning of “never again.”
We sat with Sergeant R and his grandfather, Arne, a Holocaust survivor. His story begins in Nazi-occupied Denmark, where Jewish families lived quietly until October 1943, when German forces moved to deport the country’s Jews.
While millions across Europe were trapped with nowhere to flee, the Danish people chose a different path. With the help of brave Danes and the protection offered by Sweden, nearly the entire Jewish community of Denmark (about 8,000 people) had been saved.