Queens Chronicle - The battle for a world without genocide

19.2.11

Queens Chronicle - The battle for a world without genocide: "In a room filled with people who have gone through, for many of us, the unthinkable — facing starvation and forced labor, being beaten when trying to sneak food to concentration camp prisoners — there pervaded a word that echoed throughout an event at Queens College in stark contrast to the terror they once knew: hope.
Those who spoke at Tuesday’s program commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day told the more than 100 audience members that they had emerged from some of history’s darkest moments to a world they still believe can fight for what is right.
“For four years, my mind only told me that tomorrow I might die,” said Nhi Chan, a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust that killed an estimated two million people in the late 1970s, including Chan’s two sisters. “In my heart, I deeply remember being very hungry and drinking water to fill my stomach. Let us work together so this does not happen to others.”"