04.10.13 | 7:03 am
A Genetic Orphan

TPM Reader DL shares an echo of the destruction …

Your piece really got to me. Death on the scale of the Holocaust is so overwhelming — so unfathomable that we have trouble processing the reality of it. I am also Jewish and was raised with a kind of cultural paranoia that I’ve always tried to tamp down — basically to maintain my mental health. My father was first generation and his parents survived the pogroms so it was fresh to them. But I was born in America. I wanted to feel safe and belong in this culture and the carrying the Holocaust memory was an anger I fought against.

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