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camps, is the center of his story.
Mr. Rymkiewicz uncomfortably
recounts how Jews are rounded
up and taken to Umschlagplatz
— often
as hundreds of Poles watched,
and did nothing.
In Umschlagplatz: The Fi-
nal Station (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux), Mr. Rymkiewicz juxta-
poses the past and the present,
the personal and the historical as
he pursues the Poles' relationship
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traces the continuing impact of
Nazism on the lives of ordinary
men and women.
In the book, 13 families con-
sider questions of morality, loy-
alty and nationalism as they
confront their past and discuss
issues they had for years pre-
ferred kept silent.
"Our means of return are the
stories that are given to us, and
which we alternately treasure
or hide away shamefully, em-
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A recent performance in Germany of the Passion play, blaming the Jews for the
crucifixion of Jesus.
to and responsibility in the Holo- brace or shrink from, all depend-
caust.
ing on whether or not we feel
Mr. Rymkiewicz, who was an empathetic echo, a communi-
born in Poland in 1935, is a poet ty of other listeners (and tellers)
and playwright living in Warsaw. who can help us bear the stories
Another new work focusing on as they come," the book begins.
the Holocaust and its aftermath
The Collective Silence was edit-
is The Collective Silence: Ger- ed by psychotherapists Barbara
man Identity and the Legacy Heimannsberg and Christoph J.
of Shame (Jossey-Bass), which Schmidt, both of Frankfurt. ❑
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