The Holocaust occupied Naomi's thoughts and conversation. She introduced me to the incomparable and unique writings of Primo Levi with its carefully weighed and serenely beautiful prose as it confronted the unendurable while advocated a celebration of peoples’ uniqueness as he illuminates a new morality in his differentiation between the morally strong and the morally weak vicious bully in his unforgettable portraits of those who shared his journey through hell. Naomi advocated that Primo Levi’s work with its enormous dignity and worth, his determination to survive, to bear witness and to save the scaffolding of civilisation to be essential to any understanding of the Holocaust.
Naomi once stated “You know as I walk along the street I see all those things, half eaten buns, apple cores and chips, all trampled on, and I think about these things thrown away so carelessly, they would have made the difference between life and death by starvation to a Holocaust victim.”
On the Holocaust itself she said, “The forgiving of it is just forgetting.”
