Minka at this point has finished telling the readers or listeners about her journey through the survival of the holocaust. She is now summarizing what she have learnt through the pain and adversity that she went through. Minka is explaining why she did not tell her story earlier to the world. This is a critical part in the book as it mentions the theme of how humanity is broken and the discord that exist in it through ignorance.
Earlier on in the book, Minka has encountered instances, where people told her that the Holocaust never happened. This is a series of evidence for the theme of how humanity is simply ignorant and divided as a species. As Minka has mentioned, people are just unable to accept the truth because it would be easier believing
