The Tattooist of Auschwitz author Heather Morris insisted on the importance of fiction in educating the world about the Holocaust at a JC event in London on Wednesday.
Speaking to TV personality and JC columnist Rob Rinder, the New Zealand-born novelist said that storytelling had a critical role to play in the fight against antisemitism.
Morris, who is not Jewish, said: “People aren’t going to relate to the number six million. A Jewish man in NYC pondered on what six million could look like... so he started collecting paperclips...
“Six million paperclips... meant nothing, but one paperclip did.”
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