tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554160656767636753.post4070605441813624411..comments2023-02-17T11:51:08.776+00:00Comments on demeure: The Political Turnjameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269353194686537572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554160656767636753.post-21714365239014216122009-03-09T09:44:00.000+00:002009-03-09T09:44:00.000+00:00One thing about the Holocaust is that it seems alm...One thing about the Holocaust is that it seems almost impossible to take in the millions killed. One has to take them in one person at a time, somehow, ad then try to multiply that to a million griefs. When I went to Krakow, I went to the synagogue by the old Jewish cemetery, and there was a memorial plaque on the wall put there by the sole survivor of a family of which all the others died in Auschwitz. That was what finally made me burst into tears. Wandering round the Jewish quarter there was a very weird experience - most of the Jews were visitors on special tours; and one of the synagogues is a museum of Jewish life. It was a presenced absence, a hole in the fabric of the culture.Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.com