Reply #7: I found this exceptionally poignant.

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Memories that never fade

Second generation of Holocaust survivors passes on parents' memories

Shlomo Artzi
Published: 04.15.07, 18:53 / Israel Opinion

My mother doesn't talk about it. She simply doesn't volunteer information unless I press her. Sometimes she sighs in a low voice only discernible to a sensitive ear.



She harbors an infinite reserve of people in her memory, people who have long been gone from this world, the majority of whom she never mentions. Occasionally I manage to coax something out of her, and this happens when I pressure her, on Saturday mornings when I come to visit her.



Believe me she has quite a collection of memories that never fade, because she was there in Auschwitz after all.



And believe me I can't really relate the events, not even an iota of what she told me and what she permits me to tell. Because the truth is, she doesn't allow me to tell a thing.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3388240,00.html