Laura Kam: ‚Everything boils down to luck‘: A Holocaust lesson for today – ‚One day my father went to Brussels and got caught by the SS. One day you go to the supermarket and you get caught by the virus‘ | Timesofisrael

Unexpectedly, these days my almost 90-year-old mother is reminded of the dark days of her youth. In daily telephone conversations, she, alone in her apartment in New York and me from Berlin, hiding and luck are subjects we discuss over and over. 
My mother was born in Germany and raised in Belgium. Like many European Jews in the early 1900s most of my maternal and paternal relatives moved west, in both their cases to Brussels, where they made good lives for themselves. Until…