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When you include second and third generation survivors? Potentially millions.



...I don't think that's usually what people mean by "Holocaust survivor".


Just because they're not thought about doesn't mean they don't exist.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/15/trauma-...


Of course they exist by this definition, but by default when someone describes an "X survivor" they obviously mean a person who actually went through that thing. Nobody says, "I was a cancer survivor" to mean "my grandma survived cancer".


I don't




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