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Old age and the future
Meeting that cousin from Toronto stirred my emotions as if I had
seen a dead body sitting up in a coffin before burial. It was hard to
refrain from bursting into tears—for both of us. My mind was filled
with a vivid picture of Pelcovizna and all my relatives as they looked
when I left sixty years ago. After the tragic end of all those people I
feel more love for them, and they dwell in my memory continuously.
We Jews have suffered such catastrophes many times in history. And
our poets, from Jeremiah to those of today, have filled our prayer
books and history books. We, a homeless nation without a plot of
land to erect a monument to our martyrs, have engraved their
memory in our hearts.
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