I went immediately to my writing group. I was one of three to submit writing this time. I had already done my workshop piece; I didn't really have anything going. So Anne went long so I went short. Wrote out my feelings about taking the Holocaust class next quarter. I posted an earlier version of the essay on the blog recently.
My group members encouraged me to develop it some more. I did have a powerful scene at the end. I had brought Danny, who was doing a project (sixth grade?) to visit a holocaust survivor, an older man who spoke gently to Danny and showed him the number tattooed on his arm. I responded very emotionally to this; I flashbacked to my own youth, seeing these numbers tattooed on arms in the Jewish community and the 1950s and 1960s. I must have seen them but they were never talked about.
A good scene.
I also remember the uneasy essays written in the volume celebrating the centennial of Congregation Mishkan Israel in 1940. They struck me when I read them in the book that I received via Interlibrary Loan. I wasn't sure what to do with them....but now I want them back. So I ordered that book again. I so so love Interlibrary Loan. Can't hardly believe that Access Students can use this service.
The authors worried for their brethren in Europe. Turns out to be way worse that they could have imagined.
Picture taken Pam West British Notes website of Adolph Berger who participated in Nazi forgery activities as a slave laborer. used without permission. I was taken with his clear view right into the camera.
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