Paltalk News - Gary interviews Zahava Scherz

Rutka's Notebook, the recently discovered writings of Rutka Laskier, a Jewish girl in a Polish Ghetto who was taken by the Nazis and killed, should be required reading in all junior and high school classes around the world.

That's the goal of Zahava Scherz, Rutka's half sister, who appeared on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com.

"If we are not aware that anti-Semitism and racism still exists," says Laskier, another Holocaust can occur.

"Education is the way to remember what happened so that it never happens again."

A Polish Catholic friend of Rutka helped hide her notebook from the Nazis so that it could resurface all these years later.

There were other cases of Poles helping Jews. But they did so at great peril. And they, says Scherz, were the exception rather than the rule.

The general demeanor of the Polish people during the Holocaust, she says, was to "ignore or even help the Nazis find the Jews."

Scherz says the world should follow the example of French Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy, who wants every child in every school in his nation learn the story of one child his or her age who was victimized by the Holocaust. She believes her sister hoped that her writings would help people understand the horrors of what the Nazis did.

"Rutka wanted the diary to be found," she says.

"We need to help her realize her will."

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