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Filled with photographs, The The work is a tribute to author Janusz Korczak, who lived his life Texture of Memory also reviews for children and died with them memorials throughout the Unit- ed States and in Aus- tria and Poland, discusses the state of the former death camps, and looks at Yom Hashoah in IS- rael, where the dead are remembered with a moment of silence. B We Use Only Factory Swiss Made Rolex Parts, Tools and Equipment Dion's World of Watches The Black Form "The Store To Watch" 4301 Orchard Lake Road 539-1181 (Corner of Lone Pine) Inside Crosswinds Mall Hours: Mon.-Wed. 10-6, Thurs. & Fri. 10-9, Sat. 10-6 Rolex is a Registered Trademark of Rolex USA - We Are Not an Authorized Rolex Dealer Breeze into Spring .. . Just before the hour, some people in the street begin to hesitate and wait. Then the siren begins, low and deep and rises until it reaches scream pitch, an open-mouthed wail. Depending on where one stands, the siren can be unbearably loud or is muffled by build- With 20% Off everything! who looks up wondrously at the suddenly still streets. 1111 he children's father "has camp." It's in his heart and it's in his eyes. I saw a wolf in the zoo once, with eyes like that. He was pac- ing back and forth in his cage, up and down and up and down, to the front and back again. I spent a long time staring at him through the bars. Full of worry, I went to look for (my brothers) Max and Simon. They were hanging over the rail- ings around the monkey rock, laughing at a baboon throwing pebbles. "Please, come and look at the wolf" I said, but they weren't in- terested. Only when I started to cry did Max reluctantly turn away and follow me. "Well?" he said in a bored voice when we were standing in front of the wolfs cage. 'What's the mat- ter with him?" "He has camp!" I sobbed. 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Professor of English and Ju- daic studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Mr. Young begins his book by con- sidering Holocaust memorials in Germany. One sculpture there called the Black Form, a tribute to the "missing Jews of Munster," sat "like an abandoned coffin ings and trees. All in the street amid soaring mock-baroque fa- stop in their tracks: taxis, buses, cades and gas lamps, a black trucks, pedestrians. Drivers get blight squatting in the center of out of their cars, some look up at a sunny and graceful university the sky, then at their watches, and then down at the ground. Most square." It did not remain abandoned stand with heads bowed, shoul- for long. Like so many other ders hunched. At the corner of memorials recalling the Six Mil- King George and Ben Yehuda lion, this one soon found the at- streets in Jerusalem, where I tention of gangs and stand, an old man shakes un- pseudo-artists, who covered it controllably. A young mother with graffiti, and then universi- clenches the hand of her child, Carl Friedman: Chicken pox and "camp." ther was in remains a mystery. He only talks about "the camp." It's there in the books about American Indians ("In the end the Indians were sent off to reser- vations, to ghettos where they fell sick with grief," the father says) and in a spoiled homecoming ("When my train came in this morning, I broke into a cold sweat. I don't know what got into me."). It's even in the movie the- ater, in a film about Odysseus.