Scars from the Holocaust
Growing up as the daughter of concentration camp survivors is like carrying "a terrible bomb," says Author Helen Epstein. That sense of menace and dread, she writes in her book Children of the Holocaust (Putnam; $10.95), can make New York City's Seventh Avenue subway seem like a train rolling through Poland to a death camp. As children, she and her brother armed themselves with kitchen knives whenever their parents were out, because the "burglars and murderers" might come at any time.
This week Jews around the world commemorate the victims...
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