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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." mwmwmI l NEWS 1"..mml" 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.