We just heard the siren commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was observed last night and this morning.
Leora has a good roundup of posts on the subject. Many bloggers point out the irony of the Durban II taking place in Geneva at this time.
A reader of Ukrainian ancestry left a comment on my review of The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn. He is seeking answers about the behavior of Ukrainians toward Jews during the Holocaust.
In honor of Holocaust Memorial Day, I’ll share with you a section from a book about daily life in my father’s shtetl. The book is called Memories of Ozarov, by Hillel Adler. Second-generation survivors owe a great debt to authors such as Adler, who died in 1996. In addition to this (possibly exaggerated) account, the book contains the only existing photograph of my father as a child.
I’ve been reading Daniel Mendelsohn’s book, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.
Mendelsohn grew up in an assimilated family in New York. In the background of his visits to his older relatives in Florida lay a story about a great-uncle who remained in the family’s ancestral town of Bolechow, Ukraine, only to be murdered during the Holocaust along with his wife and four daughters. The writer’s grandfather and the other siblings had already emigrated to Israel and the US.
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