Rabbi Israel Meir Lau recalls being liberated from Buchenwald at seven years old and Rabbi Herschel Schahcter finding him amid a pile of corpses. “Wie alt bist du, mein kind?” (How old are you my boy?) I saw tears dripping from his eyes….”What difference does it make? At any rate, I’m older than you.” He smiled at me from behind his tears, and asked, “Why do you think that you’re older than I am?” Without hesitating I replied, “Because you laugh and cry like a child, and I haven’t laughed for a long time. I can’t even cry any more. So which one of us is older?” from Out of the Depths
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