re were things I had to do. Words I had to speak. Moments which I had to dissect in order to show the world what I had seen and lived through. On behalf of the millions who had seen it also but could no longer speak of their dead, burned bodies, I would be the voice (11)." A New York attorney by the name of Menachem Rosensaft once said, "the Holocaust was a watershed event - a cataclysm that forever changed our perspective of jewish and human history," many survivors have come to believe that those murdered must be remembered not only as victims but as humans whose lives, culture and dynamic creativity were stolen by the Nazi war machine and its henchmen."When Lucille E. was asked "what she hoped to achieve by writing her memoirs," she said "Just to tell. The stories are all pretty much alike yet they're all different. Just to tell them one more story, I think. I don't write it for my kids, certainly not for my husband (Lucille 27)." I found a poem written by a survivor of the Holocaust called "A Survivor's Prayer" in this poem the author wrote, "I could not throw away what had been ripped away from so many. In the end I had to choose life. I had to struggle to cross the bridge between the dead and the living. I had to rebuild what had been destroyed. I had to deny death another victory (Malka B.)." I think that the author is saying that they are not going to take for granted the gift of life. They were spared for a reason and would not rest or be quiet while there were people out there who did not know the truth about the greatest tragedy of our time. The author was not going to die before they had told their story to all of those who wanted to hear. The people of this world so often just block themselves out of the bad news of today. They feel that if they do not think about it then there is no reason to worry about it. In Wiesel's book One Generation After he said "there is logic in history. The future is but connec...
