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Gene Simmons

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Gene Simmons

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Gene Simmons is emphasizing that the Holocaust is often treated as a distant event from the past, but for him, it is a recent and personal reality because his family directly suffered from it. He highlights the deep loss and trauma by pointing out that his grandparents were killed in the gas chambers, making the historical event a living truth in his life.

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