THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Pisar's Holocaust Memoir, Too Important to Ignore

By HEIDI PRESS
Samuel Pisar has dedi-
cated • his Holocaust
memoir, "Of Blood and
Hope" (Little, Brown and
Co.) to youth, for who better
to learn of the tragedies but
the children so that they

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will not repeat the errors of
the past.
In an early passage in his
recapitulation, Pisar offers
his dedication thus:
"I have never had the
slightest wish to lick the
long-healed wounds of my
youth. If I have decided now
to let my memory speak, to
describe the blood, the
tears, the pain, the joys of
friendship and knowledge
that have nourished my
faith in mankind's ability to
endure and create, it is be-
cause our idealistic and con-
fused youth of today need to
know. They need to arm
themselves against the tre-
gedies, the hypocrisies, the
false gods of history.
It is our children that I
have in mind as I write

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this book, a book that is
not about the past, but
about the future, a future
that belongs to them."
Illustrated with photo-
graphs, Pisar's painful
memories are interspersed
with events of later years. A
native of Bialystok, who
was interned in Maidanek
and suffered the brutalities
of Auschwitz, Birkenau,
Dachau and Sac-
hsenhausen, Pisar recalls
the dehumanization
encountered in his youth
and contrasts that period in
his life in the U.S., when
during President Kennedy's
Administration, he was the
adviser to the Joint Eco-
nomic Committee of the
Congress.
The book is read easily,
and like many other concen-
tration camp inmates who
have penned their recollec-
tions, the author feels guilt
at having survived. The
reader does not condemn
him for that since he is cam-
paigning to make sure that
the heinousness of the Hit-

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SAIL WITH THE

ler era is never forgotten or
repeated.
Despite the wealth of
Holocaust memoirs appear-
ing in bookstores, one can-
not overlook any of them.
For Pisar, like his contem-
poraries, is bringing to trial
in print the beasts who at-
tempted to destroy the
Jewish people. His work
cannot be ignroed.
Through his memories
he is issuing a warning to
the current era — to be-
ware of the conditions
that laid the groundwork
for the Nazi era, because
there is a possibility they
can happen here.
Samuel Pisar's "Of Blood
and Hope" is a noteworthy
commentary on contempor-
ary society as well as a
memoir of a painful period
in Jewish and world history.

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to be shown at The Jewish
Museum, New York from
Sept. 24-Jan. 4, 1981. Some
187 prints, on loan from the
Harvard Semitic Museum,
Cambridge and George
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landscapes and people of the
Orient, long before the ad-
vent of modern life styles.
A group of objects and
textiles from The Jewish
Museum's permanent col-
lection, illustrating subjects
included in the photo-
graphs, will augment the
exhibition.

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Louis E. Levy, both mem-
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