The Holocaust - A Child's Experience and its Relevance Today | Steven Frank | TEDxFrensham

Through his story and the parallels in current global issues, the speaker shows us the reality of war through the eyes of a child. His story - from a happy childhood to the horrors of a concentration camp to the safety of refuge - is offered to urge us to open our doors to those in the same plight today. Steven Frank was born in 1935 into a secular Jewish family in Amsterdam. With the outbreak of the war the family decided to remain in Holland. Steven’s father joined the Dutch resistance and helped many people escape but in 1942 he was betrayed and sent to Auschwitz where he was gassed. Steven and his mother and brother were taken to Barneveld and then Westerbork. In September 1944 they were sent to Theresienstadt where the whole family miraculously survived. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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