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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