Second generation survivors are in a category all their own. People who did not live through it don’t understand it, people who are not in the second generation category do not have the same sensitivities, philosophies, inner strengths, inbred guilts, learned responsibilities, a million and one learned and inherited bits and pieces that only a survivor can teach and give over.
For instance “I can’t” is NOT in my dictionary. My mother a”h always taught us that you never know what you are capable of until you are challenged with it, so never say I can’t, try and see what you CAN accomplish.
If someone snuck in one potato in the bunker where there were 20 women, they would either divide the potato among the twenty woman or decide to sneak it across the fence to the men because they worked harder. Can you even imagine why this foolish UO vs MO controversy is so stupid and hurtful to me????? And probably to so many other second generation survivors? Women in the camps would give the men a whole precious potato not caring if they were chassidim, misnagdim, Frum or frei and here in the CR, some are forcing a debate between MO and UO and the moderators don’t shut it down. The Nazis YM experimented on twins, do you think they cared if they were MO or UO twins or what their philosophies were? Get over yourselves already!!! Sit down and eat a potato together and remember you are lucky to share one!