By Suzanna Eibuszyc

www.beshertbook.com

Excerpt from my own pages was published on Aish.com"Born and raised in Poland, I assumed my mother’s Holocaust burden".http://www.aish.com/ho/p/Silence_is_Not_an_Option.html "Thank you for sending us your powerful submission. We would like to publish it on aish.com" Rabbi Nechemia Coopersm...

July 30, 2012

Excerpt from my own pages was published on Aish.com“Born and raised in Poland, I assumed my mother’s Holocaust burden”.http://www.aish.com/ho/p/Silence_is_Not_an_Option.html

“Thank you for sending us your powerful submission. We would like to publish it on aish.com” Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith, Editor-in-Chief, Aish.com

“It is said that in every survivor’s family, one child is unconsciously chosen to be a “memorial candle,” to carry on the mourning and to dedicate his or her life to the memory of the Shoah. That child takes part in the parents’ emotional world, assumes the burden, and becomes the link between past and future. I realize now that my mother chose me to be that candle.”

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Suzanna Eibuszyc

My book, “Memory Is Our Home,” was published by an academic press, Ibidem Press, in 2015, and in Polish in May 2016, “Pamięć Jest Naszym Domem,” by www.proszynski.pl. I was born in Poland, after the war, where we lived until the late 1960s. I graduated from CCNY with a BA. At the department of Jewish studies is where I first met Professor Elie Wiesel. I received my MA from UCLA, and was awarded a grant which allowed me to travel to Poland and Israel. Meeting professor and writer Elie Wiesel made me realize the importance of Holocaust survivors’ stories. I insisted my mother write down her incredible accounts spanning some 30 years. It was after her death that I reconnected with Professor Wiesel; he more than anyone else gave me the courage to undertake the journey of writing this book. The ghosts of my childhood came rushing in and ultimately I addressed how growing up in the shadows of the Holocaust aftermath affected 2G.