"Dean Linklater is a residential school survivor, one of many at a recent event in Winnipeg where survivors of the Holocaust and of the residential school system shared their stories of pain and healing.

“I think that only people who have been through such events or trauma can come up with the solutions they need to heal,” said Linklater at the event, hosted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Robbie Waisman, who spent six years as a child in the Buchenwald concentration camp, agreed, saying that “one heals better to share the pain with others”."

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“Death was a constant companion”: residential school and Holocaust survivors share their stories (APTN 3/22)