Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

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Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

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Bukiet contends, convincingly, that the event remains a "historic Rorschach blot"; a comet that hit at "six million miles per hour" whose waves are still spreading, and a "talismanic touchstone that every writer [Jewish or not] must genuflect toward. The selections vary wildly in genre, tone, and quality, and are, as often as not, at emotional and esthetic odds with each other. But cumulatively, they successfully move the reader toward some answer to what Bukiet calls the book's "implicit question No library descriptions found. But it is also endlessly exhausting, because it provides no reward whatsoever.

There is a tendency, however, on behalf of many people to try and impute some lesson to it. I find that incredibly dangerous.

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The second you find a lesson, you are moving one inch towards finding a silver lining, towards actually justifying it. And that seems as repugnant as the experience itself. It may have nothing to teach us and it may have everything to teach us at the very same time. We have to face it.

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So I guess my point is you can learn nothing from the holocaust and yet you may also learn everything from it. Where Melvin [Bukiet] and I would disagree is I think you have to at least confront the perpetrators. We have a debate in Holocaust literature.

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It is called the Ordinary Man, the Ordinary German debate that begins to approach the question of what allows people to become killers. Is it the ideology? Is it the notion of complicity?

Is it a notion of going along with the crowd? Is it a notion of dehumanizing the victims? When I write about the perpetrators, I seek to understand their journey. Not with sympathy and not with the idea that I can fully comprehend it and therefore excuse it. But with the idea that facing up to the Holocaust is facing up to who these people are.

I would rather face up to what they did rather than who they are. I find the search for reasons to be false at its core.

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Freud would say that there are two co-eternal impulses in the human consciousness: Clearly these exist to some extent in everyone. What actually sent an entire society overboard into the realm of death? I am not sure. That they went there is fact. What is meant by "Hitler won the war against the Jews"?