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the prototype of Holocaust
writing. His key words:
Remember, the unspeakable,
night, darkness, God, 6
million, suffering, death,
nightmares, survivor, for-
saken, silence, to bear witness,
legacy, not forget.
"Forgetfulness leads to ex-
ile. Remembrance is the
secret of redemption." This
quote from Baal Shem Toy
proliferates. Most of my life
I've been urged, goaded, and
beseached to remember. I re-
ceive letters that begin,
"Dear Survivor," and end:
"We serve notice to the world
that the Holocaust can never
be forgotten, must never be
repeated. Your commitment
to bear witness must go on.
We are not a people who for-
get. Please check off: Male/Fe-
male/Survivor/Second Gener-
ation/Third Generation/
Spouse."
Memory is our bogeyman.
In spite of all the injunctions
to remember, I am afflicted
with selective amnesia when
it comes to this "war busi-
ness." The names of dead
relatives, the dates and places
of their internment, the cities
and ghettos my parents lived
in — seem to vanish into
black holes. No matter how
many times I hear these facts,
I just can't hold onto them.
I once asked my father to
help me draw a family tree.
"A tree!" He laughed mirth-
lessly. "Without branches or
leaves."
I used to feel ashamed of
these memory lapses. I knew
James Joyce's birthday, Mal-
colm X's death, and the
places where Georgia O'Keefe
had lived. How could I care so
little for my parents? And
what of their relations who
had perished during the war?
I just couldn't understand my
own forgetfulness.
At a meeting of 2Gs, the
subject of memory came up.
One young woman admitted
that she couldn't remember
the names of her family's
dead relatives. She began to
cry shamefully. Someone else
confided his inability to
remember where his parents
were during the war. Soon
everyone was confessing to
one kind of amnesia or
another.
Something snapped. I want-
ed to demand: Remember
what? Lives extinguished?
Privates mutilated? Dead
grandparents? Uncles, aunts,
cousins? Childhoods, entire
countries and cultures lost? I
knew no one. I had seen
nothing.
Yes, I was their first seed of
life after so much death. A
living monument to their sur-
vival, a shrine to their
mothers. But I wasn't a sur-
vivor: All that I had survived
was my childhood and my
parents' fierce, anxious love.
As their child, I find myself
in limbo. I had no personal ex-
perience of the war. But I was
born on the other side, lived
my first year in a displaced-
persons camp. My father had
numbers, my mother night-
mares, and me the legacy. The
last act of the horror show of
the century. I had almost not
been born but for a whim, a
white scarf, and an impulse to
run into the forest. ❑
Sonia Pilcer is at work on
her fifth book, a novel titled
"The Survivors' Daughter."
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NEWS
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Police Search
For Attacker
Jerusalem (JTA) — Police
are still searching for the
assailant who stabbed a
yeshiva student April 6 in
the Moslem Quarter of the
Old City.
At least 150 Arab suspects
were arrested for question-
ing, but all have been
released.
The victim, Daniel Robins,
31, was recovering from a
superficial back wound at
the Hadassah Medical
Center in Ein Kerem.
He was attacked while
walking with his baby son
Yishai from the Yeshiva
Atara Leyoshna to a nearby
grocery store.
Robins, who was armed,
fired his pistol into the air to
attract help and contacted
the police headquarters on
his walkie- talkie radio. He
was swiftly evacuated by
ambulance as police closed
the Old City gates and began
arresting Arabs.
Ultra-Orthodox
Hospital
Dedicated
Jerusalem (JPFS) — A $20
million, 220-bed, non-profit
hospital, financed by private
contributions and designed
for the ultra-Orthodox, has
been dedicated in Bnei Brak.
Ma'ayanei Hayeshua
("The Wells of Salvation")
will open its obstetrics
department after Pesach, to
be soon followed by the other
departments.
Closely supervised by a
four-member rabbinical au-
thority board, the hospital
will ensure that patients are
cared for only by nurses of
their own sex.