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Representing a holocaust and its continuing impact on successive generations. The future of holocaust memory and jewish identity, memory is connected very specifically to identity. You dont know your past, you dont know your present, and you cant begin to speculate about the future. I want to suggest that there is been a major paradigm shift from the writings of survivors to those of their descendants, their daughters and their sons. So as ellyviccel explains we leave the literature of testimony and that is what the writers are writing, what they gave us and were going to the Second Generation...

Identity. You dont know your past, you dont know your present, and you cant begin to speculate about the future. I want to suggest that there is been a major paradigm shift from the writings of survivors to those of their descendants, their daughters and their sons. So as elly viccel explains we leave the literature of testimony and that is what the survivors are writing, what they gave us and were going to the Second Generation. What do we know about the Second Generation generally . One thing we know, they inherit the trauma, and the Second Generation is both the first and the last. That is ...

Look at the density of those dots. This gives you a physical image of how concentrated the Jewish Population was. And this is very important because it unlocks the secret9 to something the secret to something. One of the few records we have of the planning to will the jews of europe is on january 20th, 19 39, the head of the ss sat down with representatives of all kinds of german institutions and asserted his authority over the process and got their agreement to participate in it. He also said something that has often been quoted that was deeply misleading. He said europe will be combed there ...

"The history of the Holocaust leads to a spiritual universe more haggard than the one we inhabited before its arrival," Dr. Langer once wrote.

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