A woman promises to preserve her grandparents’ Holocaust tales, saying, “You could see the pain in their eyes.”

Warm hugs, kind eyes, and a contented life. Deborah Kalkoene’s strongest memory of her upbringing with Holocaust survivors is this.

However, the arms that gave her those hugs had tattoos on them that identified them as Nazi property (175399 and 81774). Kalkoene later determined that sharing this information would be her life’s work, even if the subject would never be discussed.

“They didn’t want to bring their grief and suffering to their kids and grandkids,” Amstelveen, Netherlands resident Kalkoene, 43, said to News.

In the midst of today’s anti-Semitism, a Tennessee professor shares the story of her late husband, a Holocaust survivor.

“In my family, the Second World War was not discussed at all,” she stated.