Saving the Tremors of Past Lives

The Jewish community of the Polish border town of Brzesc (Brisk in Yiddish),which had numbered almost 30,000 people, was wiped out during the Holocaust,with only about 10 of its members surviving. One of them was Masza Pinczuk,who escaped from the Brzesc ghetto on the eve of its liquidation on Oct. 15,1942. Her future husband succeeded in escaping from the Warsaw ghetto. Theywere the sole survivors of their respective families, and in this volume theirdaughter, Regina Grol, shares their story and meditates on the legacy of theHolocaust, exploring the lingering impact of the Holocaust on the followinggenerations. Based on interviews and letters, and checked against historicalfacts, the book includes supporting documents and photographs. It also containsan account of the author''s "internal flanerie" (to use Walter Benjamin''sterm), i.e., a retrospective and introspective look at her own life as a child of Holocaust survivors.