A Tattoo to Remember
Click here to view photos in “A Tattoo to Remember” by The New York Times on September 30, 2012.
Children and grandchildren of Auschwitz survivors are memorializing the darkest days of history on their own bodies.
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October 2nd, 2012 at 4:04 am
tragically sad. This suggests a failure of memory, a lack of faith in one’s mind that one could remember and memorialize a relative’s experiences in teh Camps without having to do something so concrete, so physical, as to also mutilate oneself, scarify one’s skin.
Among my soldiers, one had a father who was in Auschwitz at fourteen along with four buddies; three survived. The father was proud that he was able to avoid being tattooed ; he made a conscious decision that he would rather be killed than tattooed. What is his son to do? Get himself tattooed to remember his father’s experience? Of course not; his way to memorialize his father, in large part, is to live a good honest life, to raise a family and respect his father’s life.
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October 2nd, 2012 at 4:36 am
Art is long but memory like life is short. There seems to be some benefit for the couple – the survivor and the offspring I see it as an individual matter It may feel right to some “couples”‘ but not to others