My Holocaust problem: if we cannot speak of it--though speak of it we must--how do we remember what happened to the Jews of Europe?(child of Holocaust survivor finds it difficult to speak or read about the Holocaust)

American Scholar, January 1st, 2006

I did not read Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. Nor have I read Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the Eurpean Jews, or David Wyman's The Abandonment of the Jews, or, for that matter, any of the hundreds of well-received books about the fate of European Jewry between 1941 and 1945. With the exception of Primo Left's The Drowned and the Saved, none of the survivors' accounts of the German atrocities have found their way into my hands. Incredibly, I have never so much as glanced at The Diary of Anne Frank, and except for inadvertently viewing a few minutes of Claude Landsmann's...

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