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Your Storage Certificate enters you in our

like a pair of oversize shoes.
When I left home, I intended
to create a self that had noth-
ing to with my parents' pasts.
But I wanted to be a writer.
A dangerous vocation.
It is our way to tell tales,
bug-eyed people of the Book.
We become writers and
shrinks because we believe in
the power of storytelling. As
if the right arrangement of
words could release us.
As a child, my parents'
stories held me with the
power of prehistoric myth.
How my mother's mother had
forced 'her to tie a white
woolen kerchief around her
head as they lined up at the
Umschlagplatz during selec-
tion. She had been sent to the
right side along with her par-
ents and brother. All of a sud-
den, a Polish policeman
searched the line. "Bialy
szalik! Where's the girl with
the white kerchief?" She had
tried to hide behind her
mother. He spotted her, then
shoved her into the other line,
which was destined for a
labor camp. Was it the white
scarf that saved my mother's
life while her whole family
was sent to the gas chambers?
She kept it through the war.
Even when the kerchief was
only a small square. She kept
it until she was liberated by
the Russians. "Then — I lost
it," she told me. "Maybe
Momma thought I didn't need
her protection anymore?'
After surviving until the
Lodz ghetto was liquidated,
then several months in
Auschwitz, my father's laager
was forced to march from
Poland into Germany. When
a guard turned his back to
pee, my father ran into a
forest near Gliwice. It had
been raw impulse, as he didn't
have the chance to warn his
brother, who marched only
several yards ahead of him.
My father weighed less than
47 kilos when he was found
by the Russians.
Such stories. Lives saved by
split-second decisions, coin-
cidences that strained
credibility, amazing reversals.
One of my parents' friends
had been in the showers when
the gas failed and her execu-
tion was postponed. Another
had been dropped in a mass
grave, pretended to be dead,
and climbed out in the dark.
Like the Ancient Mariner, my
parents and their circle of
refugee friends repeated the
moments of their miraculous
reprieves as if they still could

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