(1/3) I think a lot about a certain phenomenon I've observed as a Jewish #genealogist. The generation born after the generation born after the Holocaust often mention in our consults "I don't think our family lost anyone" (if there's no explicit family story) (cont.)
(2/3) And invariably, even for the ones whose families were here decades before, there's always someone. There's a moment of silence when they discover their beloved grandmother lost cousins, aunts, uncles. When they learn the fates of their great great grandparents (cont)
(3/3) I was explicitly as a child who was murdered in my family. This is not the case for so many of us. Pain and the distance of generations let the memories fade into silence. It's my daunting and precious task to bring them back into living memory. #genealogy
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