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The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust Paperback – April 12, 2022
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The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust provides a window into the lived experience of sixteen different families grappling with the legacy of genocide. Each author reveals the many ways their parents’ Holocaust traumas and survival seeped into their souls and then affected their subsequent family lives – whether they knew the bulk of their parents’ stories or nothing at all.
Several of the contributors’ children share interpretations of the continuing effects of this legacy with their own poems and creative prose. Despite the diversity of each family's history and journey of discovery, the intimacy of the collective narratives reveals a common arc from suffering to resilience, across the three generations. This book offers a vision of a shared humanity against the background of inherited trauma that is relatable to anyone who grew up in the shadow of their parents’ pain.
Awards: Foreword Indies Gold Award for Anthologies, 2022 and Nautilus Silver Award for Heroic Journeys, 2023
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCity Point Press
- Publication dateApril 12, 2022
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101947951505
- ISBN-13978-1947951501
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Julie Ellis is devoted to family, elder care, and volunteerism. Like her survivor parents, she helps keep generations of her cousins connected. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Julie has held management positions in retail and consulting. She and her husband Charles, an emeritus professor, have a son and daughter-in-law who are journalists in New York.
Joy Wolfe Ensor is a psychologist whose professional career has focused heavily on the intergenerational legacy of trauma. She was born in New York City a few years after her parents and older brother arrived in the US. Joy and her husband Doug have two adult daughters and one granddaughter.
A retired executive, Ruth Wade currently volunteers at the Florida Holocaust Museum as a speaker and docent. She also assists her survivor father, Sidney Finkel, with his book and speaking engagements. Ruth grew up in Chicago and resided over twenty years in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has one son, named for her father’s brother Isaac.
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Ruth Taubman
2. The Attic Full of Photographs
Julie Goldstein Ellis
3. Drinking from a Half-Full Broken Glass
Avishay Hayut
4. I Don’t Remember
Nancy Szabo
5. Shades of Chanel No. 5
Rita Benn
6. Generation to Generation
Sassa Åkervall
7. Memorize This Address
Ava Adler
8. Lessons from My Parents
Natalie Iglewicz
9. Cutting Corners
Phil Barr
10. Always an Outsider
Cilla Tomas
11. Chesed
Simone Yehuda
12. If Only
Eszter Gombosi
13. Please Remember
Myra Fox
14. Osmosis
Fran Lewy Berg
15. Not Made of Glass
Ruth Wade
16. One Day the World Will Be the World Again
Joy Wolfe Ensor
Endnotes
Contributors
Acknowledgments
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- Publisher : City Point Press (April 12, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1947951505
- ISBN-13 : 978-1947951501
- Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #336,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #195 in Jewish Biographies
- #315 in Survival Biographies
- #326 in Literary Diaries & Journals
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The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust provides a window into the lived experience of sixteen different families grappling with the legacy of genocide. Each author reveals the many ways their parents’ Holocaust traumas and survival seeped into their souls and then affected their subsequent family lives – whether they knew the bulk of their parents’ stories or nothing at all. Authors in alphabetical order: Ava Dee Adler, Sassa Åkervall, Phil Barr, Rita Benn, Fran Lewy Berg, Julie Goldstein Ellis, Joy Wolfe Ensor, Myra Sue Fox, Eszter Gombosi, Avishay Hayut, Natalie L. Iglewicz, Nancy Szabo, Ruth Taubman, Cilla Tomas, Ruth Finkel Wade, Simone Naomi Yehuda
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2023For a majority of my life, as a student I’ve been taught about the Holocaust in terms of numbers: 6 million Jews, 40,000 camps, 4 years of terror….However, I now understand that the gravity of genocide isn’t intensified by reminding humans of numbers, it’s intensified by reminding humans of humanity.
The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust is a poignant collection of stories that reframes the devastation of the Holocaust through the eyes of people currently affected by its aftermath. Through a bouquet of raw well-written prose and poetry, we are shown not only what it means to have lived in a concentration camp, but also what it means catch a mild cold or not eat all of the food on one's plate, and how they are both horrifying in the context of being a first and second generation voice of the Holocaust.
In a world of chaos and destruction, this book is not only a good read but a necessary one. I urge everyone to read it, and never forget.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2022After reading many books about the Holocaust, I've often wondered how people who had gone through such trauma could lead a somewhat "normal" life. "The Ones Who Remember", written by sixteen individuals whose parents survived the Holocaust, gave me a glimpse into how their parents dealt with living through horrific event and the effect it had on the lives of future generations. There is a thread that is woven into many of the stories of nightmares, mental illness, constant fear and depression. Most of these children grew up never knowing grandparents or other close family members who had all been murdered. The book is well written, enlightening and moving, as you read each person bare their souls, reliving the stories that were not easy to tell. It is also uplifting to see that this next generation was able to rise beyond their experiences, becoming professionals, who made great contributions to our society. We are grateful for the telling of their innermost thoughts and feelings and must urge others to read their stories in order to better understand the aftermath of trauma – be it the Holocaust or other atrocities that are still being carried on today. History is so easily forgotten, but we must be sure that we are among “The Ones Who Remember”!
-Marianne Adler Aaron
(One of the lucky ones, who came to the United States with my family as an 8 year old from Germany in 1939!)
- Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2023Second Generation Voices of the Holocaust is a collection of stories written by children of survivors, who came to the U.S. from many diffirent parts of Europe. Each story is different, together they form a riveting and unforgettable portrait of death, life, and breaking the silence after the Shoah.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2022Themes explored in this powerful compendium of experiences of children of Holocaust survivors:
We have an intrinsic knowing
Most of what I learned came in fragments
Terrible things happened
My motto is hope for the best, prepare for the worst
How does healing occur? Certainly it never happened for...
I have often felt like an outsider.
I have never felt nationalistic or patriotic.
Eating was a constant subject of lament.
My parents did not talk about the Holocaust.
My brother and I absorbed it by osmosis.
My sister was unable to forgive.
It is a miracle to know my parents’ lineage continues
Any confrontation on my part left me feeling like I was crazy.
I blame the Nazis. They took away my dad’s ability to love fiercely.
Guess what? I still write verse.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2022These stories tell help express how trauma can be intergenerational. Uncovering the stories helps to start healing the trauma. Burying the memories breeds shame. Giving voice to memories builds the confidence to transform and change. A favorite quote from the book, "That which is unspeakable has tremendous power... Giving it voice takes away much of that power. Shine light on it and you can start to deal with it."
- Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2022Love better understanding how a parent experience can be transmitted by non- verbal means. Very well written narratives which are very diverse. Ever wonder why some child relatives are never mentioned?
- Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2023"The parents' suffering seeped into our souls.”
Sixteen authors each contribute an essay on their parents experiences during the holocaust and how it affected them, the survivors. One generation removed from the horrors, these second-generation authors also examine how the holocaust effected them, the children of the survivors, and how bering the child of a survivor influenced the raising of their own children (the third-generation).
Holocaust survivors were suffering the mental and behavioral effects of PTSD long before we had a name for it. They experienced on-going fears and anxieties, mental illness, nightmares, depression and anger. Second-generation survivors witnessed their parents suffering. “To protect them from further sadness and pain...we never made trouble ourselves.”
Trauma affected the entire family and that, in turn, influenced how these authors were raised and how they raised their own children as the following quotes demonstrate. “My parents’ neediness and fear were stifling me.” “I was attributing something that I imagined happened to Mom, physically in the concentration camp, to my own, tainted condition.” “After all that our parents had endured, how dare we portray them as in any way flawed?” “I felt frustrated and sad that I couldn’t tell my mommy I got a cut.” “By carrying Juliska’s name, am I obligated to make up for a lost life in whatever I do in my own life?” ”I tend to worry. Is it any surprise that I worry, with a family history full of horrible suffering?” "My situation paled in comparison.” “We are the link to our parents’ ongoing, lifelong trauma’”
The Ones Who Remember is a collection of powerful and heartbreaking essays that provide an honest look at the effect of the Holocaust on generations. Well-written, insightful, informative. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️