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This Week
WITNESS
from page
Remembering The Shoah
15
train carrying
Wow Go Talk'
them.
That numbness may
"I had wooden
stem from the fact that
shoes and they
"right after the war, they
made holes in my
were told: 'That was
heels," she said.
then, this is now,"' said
"You could see the
Oak Park's Sidney
bones."
Bolkosky, professor of
There were sev-
history at the University
eral times that she
of Michigan-Dearborn.
wanted to stop and
"Many wanted to talk
give up, but it was
after the war, but they
her sister, "my
were told not to."
shining light," and
Bolkosky, who has
another woman
conducted 170 survivor
who dragged her
testimonies for the U.S.
along.
Holocaust Museum in
"The Nazis took
Washington, D.C.
us to a barn and
(through his
watched us
Voice/Vision Project),
through the
said very few survivors
night." The follow-
told their stories until
ing morning, the
1981, after the first
Nazis were gone
world gathering of
and Russians liber-
Holocaust survivors in
ated the girls close
Israel when writer Elie
to the German-
Wiesel said, "You are
Czechoslovakian
the witnesses. Now go
border.
talk."
Eisenberg met
The reasons that sur-
her husband,
vivors dredge up horri-
Eugene, in the
ble memories are var-
displaced persons
ied, Bolkosky said.
camps. Her sister
"Some think that some-
remembered the
body has to stop the
address of their
Top: An empty Zyklon B canister. deniers. Others think
grandparents, who
this will prevent anoth-
Above: A yellow star of David
settled in the
er Holocaust; others
worn by a prisoner.
United States
just need to talk, need
before the war.
to finally get it out and
They filed papers and arrived in
unburden themselves.
October 1949.
"Holocaust deniers won't pay any
Only she, one brother and her
attention to survivor testimony, and
sister survived World War II. Her
I don't see how telling their story is
sister died four years ago, and her
going to prevent genocide. But it
brother lives in California.
gives them a reason to talk. They
"My children always knew the
also think they can connect with
story," she said, but her husband
high school students because during
never talked about it to anyone.
the war, they were the same age as
"When I go to the synagogue and I
the students.
say Shema Yisroel, I have a vivid pic-
"Some think it's cathartic [to par-
ture of saying that while being hud-
.ticipate in the oral histories]. They
dled together with the other women
feel they can get it over with and
while we were being bombed."
move on, but for weeks after, they
Whenever she sees a chimney, she
keep calling me back and telling me,
sees Auschwitz; cattle trains remind her
`I forgot to tell you this and I forgot
of the war. But talking about it doesn't
to tell you that.'"
faze her. Still haunted by dreams,
Two reasons explain why inter-
Eisenberg said it's worse because now
viewing survivors are worthwhile, he
the dreams involve her two children.
said. "We are doing this because sur-
But there are good moments, too.
vivor testimonies make the experi-
Eisenberg speaks of the letters she
ence concrete, it makes the history
gets from students who have heard
personal. It's no longer an abstrac-
her story. "They say I make them
tion. The history of the Holocaust is
better people," she said. "It's person-
memory now," Bolkosky said.
ally rewarding, but talking makes
"And the other reason is, I just
me numb."
think it's a good thing to do." ❑