Essay von Gary Lucas im Forward (vier Artikel im Monat frei zugänglich) – Erinnerung bleibt eine schwierige Aufgabe, hier, dort, überall, nicht nur der scheren Zahlen wegn …
When I was a boy, I often pondered the fate of my European relatives on my mother’s side. I knew my family had originally been named Piekareski and they had lived for many generations in a little town called Jedwabne, near Białystok in northeastern Poland. I knew that my grandfather Samuel had been smuggled out of Jedwabne and Poland by his doting mother at a very tender age. She had disguised him for the journey by dressing him up as a little girl to prevent him from being turned back at immigration as an able-bodied boy to be eventually conscripted into the Polish army. ….
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