And out of respect, I step outside the barracks, and I’m in Auschwitz, and I want people to understand this, because sometimes in numbers, we miss the personal narrative. Everyone’s got a family Whatsapp group. As a Jew, I go on to my family Whatsapp group, and I ask, are you OK? Are my family still alive? I get pictures and videos from the community. I zoom in at the bodies, the legs, the clothes that can be seen, to try and identify, ‘Is that my own family?’ and every single Jew in our community did that yesterday.







