Can't take it anymore/Glo

[Guest guest]

I hope nobody leaves! Glo, I'm sorry I haven't supported your Holocaust

thread, but something noteworthy occurs to me now. I converted to Judaism

about 15 years ago after thinking about it for the previous 25. I had always

thought this had something to do with my dad's having been an attorney for

the US team at the Nuremberg trials. He'd had daily contact with all the

prisoners, and, as he was in charge of all the documentary evidence, was one

of the first Allied officers to understand the full scope of the atrocities.

He came home obsessed and his experience permeated and shaped my childhood.

Later, other Jewish friends and family told me that many suspected that some

of those who were killed reincarnated immediately and people now alive with

their souls find themselves compelled to finish unfinished Jewish business.

I don't know if this is true but it has a "right" feeling for me. Much of my

own personal "Jewish business" has now been completed. I don't know how old

you are but you may be carrying compassion for more than you know. You may

be familiar with a group called Second Generation. They are the children of

Holocaust Survivors who have many psychological commonalities and find much

support in group sharing. As far as I am concerned, the effects of the

Holocaust are rippling and unending. There have been many equally horrific

slaughters, but those of us alive at this time can truly sense that the

extermination shattered all illusions of "modernity" and "progress" that

seemed to typify the 20th century. Holly