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Category Archives: Genocide
My Father, a Hero?
Today, April 4, 2014, around 4:00 p.m. I happened to run across a poem my daughter, Elaine, has written years ago in honor of my father. Shortly thereafter I broke out in cold sweat. All memories about Father are abstract. … Continue reading
Holocaust Heroes
In March 2014, my family and I celebrated my 86th birthday. Birthdays, to me, always connect me to the idea of having survived the Holocaust. To my amazement, I discovered that my 24 year old granddaughter has, on her neck, … Continue reading
Holocaust Survivors and Passivity
by Emanuel Tanay A willingness to suspend the perspective of the present is essential for the reconstruction of the Zeitgeist of a bygone period. Gustav Flaubert observed that, “External reality has to enter into us; almost enough to make us … Continue reading
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Holocaust Survivors Autobiographies and Popularity
Emanuel Tanay, M.D. I began to write my autobiography entitled Passport to Life: Autobiographical Reflections on the Holocaust in 1946 when I arrived from Poland in Munich, Germany in 1945. In those days I wrote in Polish. As time progressed … Continue reading
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Holocaust Survivors and Passivity
by Emanuel Tanay A willingness to suspend the perspective of the present is essential for the reconstruction of the Zeitgeist of a bygone period. Gustav Flaubert observed that, “External reality has to enter into us; almost enough to make us … Continue reading
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The Wallenberg Legend: Holocaust Remembrance Made to Order
Every year in April and May, Jewish communities commemorate the Holocaust by comemorating the heroism of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the heroism of Raoul Wallenberg. Raoul Wallenberg, a young Swedish businessman-turned-diplomat, is credited today with saving 100,000 Hungarian Jews, … Continue reading
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A day to remember
A DAY TO REMEMBER By Emanuel Tanay M.D. In June 1944, I was walking down Rakoczy Street in Budapest, the city’s main thoroughfare, when a member of our survivor group caught up with me. “I have been searching for you. … Continue reading
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