NOW
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she told Hershleder, some small under-
standing of what happened to her.
Hershleder craves an even deeper
understanding and to that end tracks
down a Holocaust revisionist in France
who has retracted his Holocaust denial.
Hershleder meets Leclerc, the former
revisionist, who now devotes his energy
to culling details about the construction
of gas chambers, but who also admits
that he does not like Jews. Nevertheless,
Hershleder derives a peculiar kind of
inspiration from him:
"How could one deny these horrors
in the first place and then go on to find
the courage to re-research what he had
originally believed, to re-evaluate some
of the tenets upon which he'd built his
historical perspective, he asks.
And vet that is exactly what David
Hershleder has done. Helen Schulman
succeeds in teasing apart the painful
conflicting feelings of denial and
acknowledgment that can accompany
the subject of the Holocaust. She also
exposes, in wise and measured doses,
the ways in which Holocaust revision-
ism assaults truth, memory and the
human spirit.

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`How We Met

'

Looking for Love: Chance Encounters
and Other True Love Stories of Real-Life
Couples, by Miriam Sokol (Prima
Publishing; $15), is a collection of sto-
ries of how people found their des-
tined partners,
their beshert.
The unique cir-
cumstances, twists
and turns, and the
amazing coinci-
dences by which
one partner finds
the other, attests to
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the idea that there
is a divine hand
guiding people
together, believes Sokol, who borrows
concepts from Kabbalah to explain the
ways in which people find their soul
mates.
Depicted in this little book are
more than 30 remarkable encounters
ranging from chance meetings to long
lost loves. One story is of a man reunit-
ed with a woman who, as a child dur-
ing World War II, risked her life to help
him survive the horrors of a Nazi con-
centration camp.
There is a purpose and meaning in
the events that happen in our lives,"
says Sokol. "No one should ever give
up on crossing paths with [his or her]
soul mate." I1

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