In the documentary, the sisters talk about their father’s heroic deeds during the Second World War. With his clever tricks he saved the lives of hundreds of Jews. For the Jewish Social Work Foundation, Myriam spoke for years at primary schools about her father and her own war grief.
“I had a lot of admiration for how she talked to those children,” Hannah says by telephone from her hometown of Jerusalem. “A little boy with a Muslim background once asked: Do you like Palestinian children?”
Be a little kind to each other
She continues: “Then she replied that there are nice children everywhere and that you should always try to be nice to people. I think that she started those conversations is even more important than her talking about the war.”
It ties in nicely with what Myriam says in the documentary about the purpose of her school visits: “To point out to the children that we thought at the time: this will never happen again. And there is no war here, but of course there is war everywhere in the world. Often for nothing at all. And then I always say: I cannot change that and you cannot change that, but we can be kind to each other every square centimeter. That is the only thing we can do.”
Myriam received a ribbon for the work she did for the Jewish Social Work Foundation.
Watch the NH documentary with Myriam and Hannah below. Text continues below video.