EVEN as someone who for 12 years has been immersed in personal testimony of the Holocaust, Dr Toby Simpson would never describe himself as numb to its horrors.
“I do have to keep a certain professional distance from it to do my job. But it still hits you sometimes, and sometimes unexpectedly,” Dr Simpson, the director of the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, told the JEP.
Dr Simpson, who was speaking in Jersey this weekend ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday, says this anniversary year – which marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz – has been particularly challenging. ..
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