Posted by: Audriana Mekula-Hanson, Wagner College Holocaust Intern 2014 When it first hit me that I would be meeting a Holocaust survivor, I was both humbled and nervous. I thought, “This man’s story has played such a large role in history because every day he is a living testament to the atrocities of our past.” I would imagine that would be a large burden, knowing that you are left to carry not on your own story, but the stories of so many others. When I watched clips from his interview and realized he was spent time in both Slovakia and Hungary, I felt honored to meet him because I am a quarter Slovakian and a quarter Hungarian and I have never met anyone outside of my own family who shares that ethnic background. While my family is not Jewish and had emigrated before World War II, when I told Arthur about my lineage, I saw his eyes light up and I felt an instant connection between...