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PARKING AND ENTRANCE IN REAR
Piotrkov Trybunalski Relief
not quite believe them. An
Association Bulletin ran an
implicit question haunted
announcement: "God bless
their stories: Why them? Why
the Third Generation."
did they live and the others
Many 2Gs become psycho-
did not? If asked, they had no
therapists. The theory is that
answer. "We were not any
growing up, we nurture our
smarter, hardly better,
parents and grow accustomed
human beings. The good peo-
to intuiting their needs. Sur-
ple were killed."
viving the survivors. Thus,
Stories of the others were
the natural career choice.
told too, of the unlucky one
who lit a cigarette and was
Some become disturbed.
Dark-eyed Anny, anorexic
shot, of the young mother
before anyone knew the word,
who was taken away. My
mother and several women in
wrote short stories at CCNY
about the stench of burning
the laager hid her little boy in
a crack in the wall. Somehow
skin on Krakow streets, rela-
he knew not to cry. They
tions turned to bars of soap.
watched fearfully as he grew
"If God really loved us, would
larger, knowing he would
He have given us wrists?" On
soon be discovered. The night
the anniversary of Anny's
my father escaped, his
mother's incarceration and
brother was locked in an air-
the incineration of her fami-
ly, she committed herself to a
tight potato cellar; he couldn't
get close enough to the crack
Long Island hospital.
Benson, producer of TV
under the cellar door to
commercials, craved coked ex-
breathe.
I don't ever remember not
knowing. I believe I sucked
I watched
the knowledge in my
mother's milk. It gave me a
hundreds of naked
secret inner life that was as
bodies, more bone
voluptuous as it was tortured.
than flesh, being
I supplemented my fantasies
with movies. My mother was
dumped in the
Ingrid Bergman and my
bottom of a huge
father, Tyrone Power. I embel-
cavity.
lished his heroic escape into
the woods. He fought the Ger-
mans and saved my mother's
citement and told me he could
life. At the war's end, they
only have sex with black
locked in passionate embrace.
prostitutes. "This is my Aunt
Then I saw my first docu-
Tessa," he said, pointing to a
mentary footage of the camps.
lampshade in his apartment.
I had walked in as my parents
"She could always tan easily."
sat in front of our black-and-
Randy emigrated from
white Westinghouse. I watch-
Westchester and joined the
ed hundreds of naked bodies,
Israeli army. On Yom Kippur,
more bone than flesh, being
he ate pork chops, followed by
dumped in the bottom of a
an all-night poker game."
huge cavity. The skeletons
I've often been struck by the
dropped like debris into the
irony that the survivors seem
mass grave. I observed close-
to have the ability to go on
ups of faces with vacant,
with their lives. The bar mitz-
wide-eyed stares. My mother
vahs and weddings of their
wept. My father peered in-
children are huge, festive af-
tently at the television set as
firmations of life. It is these
if he might spot someone he
same children who spend
knew.
much of their time, not to
mention money, talking to
We call ourselves 2Gs. This
Ph.D.s, M.S.W.s, and thera-
is group shorthand for Second
pists. In unaccented, well-
Generation, the survivors'
reasoned English, we speak of
children. There is a cabal of
anger and guilt, trying to
us. We have organizations
separate ourselves from our
with names like the Genera-
parents and their Holocaust
tion After, support groups and
kinship meetings, well-
past.
The Holocaust is our scar,
attended conferences in the
distinguishing us like stig-
States and Israel. Scholarly
mata. It gives our life gravi-
books and articles are
ty and we cling to it. We
published. "There's no
would be ordinary without it.
business like shoah business,"
Secretly, we believe that
one of my 2G friends quips.
nothing we can ever do will be
Shoah is the Hebrew word for
as important as our parents'
"Holocaust."
suffering.
The term Second Genera-
From the Statement of Pur-
tion implies something that's
pose of the International Net-
passed on. Diabetes, blue
work of Children of Jewish
eyes, twins, and — genocide?
Holocaust Survivors: "As the
One even hears of 3G, referr-
heirs of the six million Jews
ing to the Third Generation of
who perished during the
transmission. Recently, when
Holocaust and as the sons
my son, Jacob, was born, the