How do you talk about and make sense of your life when you grew up
with parents who survived the most unimaginable horrors of family
separation, systematic murder and unending encounters of inhumanity?
Sixteen authors reveal the challenges and gifts of living with
the aftermath of their parents' inconceivable experiences during the
Holocaust.
The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust
provides a window into the lived experience of sixteen different
families grappling with the legacy of genocide. Each author reveals the
many ways their parents' Holocaust traumas and survival seeped into
their souls and then affected their subsequent family lives - whether
they knew the bulk of their parents' stories or nothing at all.
Several of the contributors' children share interpretations of the
continuing effects of this legacy with their own poems and creative
prose. Despite the diversity of each family's history and journey of
discovery, the intimacy of the collective narratives reveals a common
arc from suffering to resilience, across the three generations. This
book offers a vision of a shared humanity against the background of
inherited trauma that is relatable to anyone who grew up in the shadow
of their parents' pain.
