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Adina Krantz. Photo: Lars Pehrson

Adina Krantz grandmother Olga was 17 years old when she was deported to Auschwitz. The year was 1944. Olga was a young woman from a small village in the Hungarian speaking part of Romania. In Auschwitz were murdered basically her whole family; only Olga and one sister survived.

Today, over 70 years later, going Adina Krantz around to Swedish schools to talk about her grandmother’s life story. Together with her friend, she founded the organization Zikaron.

The idea of ​​Zikaron is that Jewish youth will pass on stories from their relatives who survived the Holocaust.

– We take our grandparent history and describes it in a personal and profound way. We try not to take away any details. We want to touch the students, simply says Adina Krantz, adding that they see it as their task to the third generation survivors maintain knowledge about the Holocaust alive.

– Now there is not so many survivors remain. Those that remain are getting old, says Adina Krantz, who was 16 when her grandmother died.

Holocaust marked Adina Krantz growing up, and she can tell you many details from her grandmother life.

– Grandmother’ve described how extremely little food they had in the camp. It was the soup of bad water, hard bread lumps. She has told that it was constantly hungry in the camp.

In the morning, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Zikaron year scholarship from Micael Bindefelds foundation for their work.

– It means a lot to us . We will use the money for continuing education to keep the high quality of the lectures.

The money also makes it possible for Zikaron to reach more schools. So far they have mainly lectured at high schools in the Stockholm area, but now they have the opportunity to travel to schools around the country.

How does the knowledge of the Holocaust on schools?

– My opinion is that it differs significantly from school to school. In some schools, students are accustomed to see this as a historic event that they can put into context and analyze. At other schools, students have not heard of the Holocaust more than once, and they have never met a Jew in Sweden. Then it feels more important to be out and read.