Photographer: Arnold Newman
Great question. Can you imagine being in a situation where your loved ones have died, and you have emotional conflict that half wants to return to the most frightening time of your life which happened right there in that room when you and your family hid for your lives from nazi persecution, but everyone was still alive? Imagine having your most recent happy memories of your family mixed up with that terror. How awful.
I hope he thought back to before the times they spent hiding.
I lost my brother after a long failed treatment for cancer. It’s easy to remember the crappy 3 years of hospital visits and associated hardship. But when I remember him, I’m more often thinking of the 30 years before that, and the good moments in between.
Being in that room probably made it impossible not to think about the war though, and there’s no way anyone could be expected to think otherwise.
Also vote against Nazis and fascists so we don’t have to deal with these again.
