Becoming Ordinary: A Youth Born of the Holocaust What I Kept What I Let Go...

What is a Jew? A Jew is someone who argues with God whether he believes in Him or not.The war was over long ago but the Holocaust still lived in his family. It was the subtext of his life the trauma that held him captive. His father the poets song about his birth haunted him from early on. He was named Menachem consolation . . .Above the peaks low clouds unfurlSomber gray they spreadLike faces from my far-off landTheir call rings out unsaid: Bring forth new life they clamor -To replace six million dead.How could he move on? Yet he knew he had to.