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22 Friday, 'Mardi 14, 1975
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A man who has lost two
families and survived two
holocausts should have a
right to bitterness and
hatred. But Martin Gray
does not see it that way, and
in "A Book of Life" (Sea-
bury Press), a sequel to his
best seller "For Those I
Loved," Gray offers happi-
ness, courage and hope to a
woOd starved of those quali-
ties.
A first look at Gray's
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after I'd reached America
book might scare away to-
with such difficulty. Those
day's sophisticated reading
of other women glimpsed
audience. Yet Martin Gray
amid ruins in Warsaw,
offers a simple, easy to read
seen an instant and then
philosophy of life that truly
lost forever .. ."
accomplishes the author's
She thanked Gray for
intention of inspiring the
reader, while refraining writing the book, and ex-
from any syrupy lecturing plained that it had given her
that one might expect from daughter new courage after
several setbacks. Suddenly,
a book like this.
Gray explained, he had
Gray wrote "For Those I
Loved" after the tragic found new purpose in his
death of his wife and four _ life as the old woman told
children during a forest fire him, "You must continue to
around their home in south- speak, to tell people. They
ern France. While fleeing do not know. Sometimes a
through the flames and few words are enough. How,
smoke in the family auto- one doesn't know, but they
are and everything changes
mobile, Mrs. Gray drove off
for them. It's as if they'd
the mountain road.
A resistance fighter in suddenly discovered what
the Warsaw Ghetto at age they had not seen."
In these times of Water-
14, and a survivor of Tre-
blinka, Gray explains how gate, of every man for him-
his life was aimless until self, Martin Gray has an an-
he met his wife, and how swer to this and the 30-year
much joy they received question of why millions
from life while watching refused to resist, or even un-
derstand their approaching
their children grow.
Instead of languishing in doom in the Holocaust:
"All those thin-faced
his remorse after the loss of
his family, Gray started the men, heads slightly bowed,
Dina Gray Foundation in who refused to fight for
France to help prevent trag- their lives, who refused to
edies such as his and wrote hate. They went to' their
deaths calmly, tranquilly. I
"For Those I Loved."
In his own words, "A • had chosen another way:
Book of Life" is dedicated combat. And we were right
"To those who by the thou- to resist. I know we were.
"But I learned not to
sands have written to tell
me their friendship. To condemn those righteous
those who have silently men. I understand them
shared my hardship. To better today than I could
those who have asked about then. They were what re-
mained to us of goodness.
the meaning of life . . ."
Interspersing personal They testified that man, no
examples of himself and matter what the circumst-
friends, Gray weaves a pat- ances, can refuse to "kill
tern of advice and vignettes. and to hate."
Gray describes how these
For example, he tells how,
after writing his first book, Jews fought with their eyes
he went through the aimless and their minds, pitying
rounds of public appear- their executioners.
ances at book counters. Peo- "Without them by our
ple were unanimously sym- sides," he said, "what would
pathetic and understanding, we have been if not like our
but Gray felt himself in an enemies?"
He concludes:' "For he'
aimless void, filled with de-
who shows himself to others
spair.
with the sole force of his
"And then this old self, he who is true, who
woman had come up to me. speaks without artific and
She held herself straight who refuses hatred, the just
against the table with my man who is harmony with
book to her chest. And be- himself, whatever his per-
hind her smile I seemed to sonal fate — he is heard by
see other old faces; that of others. And his source does
my mother welcoming me
t die. Its spring
where."
"A Book of Life" is a pow-
erful novel in which the au-
thor emminently succeeds
in leading the reader to an
inner sense of peace with
himSelf and his world.
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