We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust
Ellen Cassedy
Mar 2012 · U of Nebraska Press
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Ellen Cassedy?s longing to recover the Yiddish she?d lost with her mother?s death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the ?Jerusalem of the North.? As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty years after he?d left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a shocking disclosure about his wartime experience, and an elderly man from her ancestral town made an unsettling request. Gradually, what had begun as a personal journey broadened into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move forward into the future. How does a nation?how do successor generations, moral beings?overcome a bloody past? How do we judge the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, and ourselves? These are the questions Cassedy confronts in We Are Here, one woman?s exploration of Lithuania?s Jewish history combined with a personal exploration of her own family?s place in it.
Digging through archives with the help of a local whose motives are puzzling to her; interviewing natives, including an old man who wants to ?speak to a Jew? before he dies; discovering the complications encountered by a country that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation?Cassedy finds that it?s not just the facts of history that matter, but what we choose to do with them.
Digging through archives with the help of a local whose motives are puzzling to her; interviewing natives, including an old man who wants to ?speak to a Jew? before he dies; discovering the complications encountered by a country that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation?Cassedy finds that it?s not just the facts of history that matter, but what we choose to do with them.
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November 21, 2012
As a Lithuanian this subject was always difficult to approach. I can only thank the author for helping me understand my own history, my families history, their Jewish neighbors and the history of my county.
About the author
Ellen Cassedy has explored the world of the Lithuanian Holocaust for ten years. Her translations and articles have appeared in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies,ÿForward, and Hadassah.
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