Two hundred generations of European Jews. All gone, just as if they'd never been. It was the first time it was really real for me--just as if I were standing at the top of a ladder and somebody yanked the ladder away--and I was still standing there, only now it was *possible* to fall, because all my connections had been cut away, and there I was looking down into empty space, thinking about how I'd come this close to just not existing at all. Rosemary Edghill
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The great Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber, wrote that “two hundred generations of European Jews. All gone, just as if they'd never been.” This powerful quote is not just a reflection of the Holocaust’s power to destroy whole peoples, but also the power of the people who were its victims. They persevered and endured, even when there was nothing left to endure. As Buber noted, they were “just as if they'd never been.”

Source: The Sword Of Maidens Tears

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