Anybody noticed Amy Guttman lately? Her father was an orthodox...

[agingdem]

4. My parents were Holocaust survivors ... Auschwitz

did they teach me to hate Germans?..they didn't have to...the numbers on their arms they tried to hide, my mother's screaming nightmares, paralyzing terror at the sight of a train..forever asking why they alone survived their families, never-ending tears for the families they lost, trusting no one, terrified my sister and I would be taken, always preparing for the next Hitler: hiding jewelry/money/gold coins under our beds..bribes for guards so we could run, twelve blazing memorial candles on the kitchen table every Yom Kippur...

have I become more forgiving in my old age...no... but I do admire Amy Guttman for what she is doing...