Peter asked Randy Susan Meyers:

I am intrigued by the very last part of your comment that as a young woman you went on to read "Anne Frank's Diary." Did you go on to read other books about the Holocaust? As a Holocaust survivor, and author of a memoir entitled "Memories of Evil -- Recalling a World War II Childhood," this is obviously of great interest to me.

Randy Susan Meyers Hi Peter,

All through my teenage and young adult years I plowed through novels set during the Holocaust, until it became so real that I worried each time I read any instance of anti-Semitism. (I still do.)

I believe very much the saying that if we do not learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it and literature and other art forms are our most important ways of ensuring each generations learned the sins of the past.

Good luck with your novel. I will look for it.
Warmest,
Randy

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