Sami Steigmann, now 82, spent his early years in a Nazi labor camp.
Sami Steigmann was one and a half years old when he and his family were deported from Czernowitz, Romania, in present-day Ukraine, to a Nazi labor camp in Mogilev-Podolski. From the time they arrived in 1941 until they were freed in 1944, they endured daily horrors. ForThough he was too young to form clear memories of his time at the camp, the cruel experiments performed on his body left him with lifelong physical pain.
It wasn’t until late in life that Steigmann started sharing his story. For decades, he felt he didn’t belong to the generation of Holocaust survivors or their children born in displaced-persons camps because he had no memory from that time. But two events changed everything for him. In 2003, Steigmann attended an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, for survivors and their children. Among the 8,000 people present, he met a man who was born in the same city and held at the same labor camp during the years he was there. Steigmann describes this moment asYiddish for “destiny.” “That prompted me to stop ignoring being a Holocaust survivor," he recalls. "That’s when I felt I belonged.
Then, in 2008, he spoke to a class of sixth graders and was forever touched by the impact his story had on one particular student. “She wrote that my story was overwhelming and that she’d promise to pass it on to her children," Steigmann shares. "Because of her, I decided to dedicate the rest of my life to reach as many young people all over the world.”Teen Vogue
speaks to Steigmann about his mission to educate people on the history of the Holocaust and the universal values of cultivating a more compassionate society.What is the most powerful lesson of your life that you want others to learn from?Never to give up, never to lose hope under any circumstances. One of the most important moments in my life is when I became homeless. Initially, I did not want to live; I tried to commit suicide.
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