"Let me explain that even though I had been in #Auschwitz I did not know about the #GasChambers. Can you imagine that?"
#MarikaFrankAbrams, survivor and artist, in Voices from the #Holocaust, referenced during #MarkWeber his testimony before the #HumanRightsCommission, #Toronto, #Canada Dec. 9, 1998

#EleanorRoosevelt chaired UN #HumanRightsCommission which drafted 1st #UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights: "recognition of the inherent dignity & of the equal & inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice & peace in the world" @hcrichardson.bsky.social