Shtejtl survives First Kaddish. In Hiding The Liberation. The Victims Hlc. For years the Holocaust Survivors lived their lives trying to forget. Remembering was unsettling and painful.
Bad memories are hard to remember and hard to forget.
One day those memories are coming back to life. Her face turned white. She stopped for a moment, like fighting the onrush of painful thoughts. I never talk about this. We were hiding in a forest in Poland.