Surviving It All
May 27, 2020 4:03 PM Subscribe
Marga Griesbach, 92, made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.
What a detailed memory she has! A difficult read, but fantastic (and I'm not even done).
posted by stevil at 5:12 PM on May 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by stevil at 5:12 PM on May 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
That was extraordinary.
posted by kalimac at 5:13 PM on May 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by kalimac at 5:13 PM on May 27, 2020 [1 favorite]
It makes you realize how sanitized the typical Holocaust education narrative is.
posted by thelonius at 8:41 PM on May 27, 2020 [6 favorites]
posted by thelonius at 8:41 PM on May 27, 2020 [6 favorites]
BigHeartedGuy, thank you for posting that.
The incident in the store, where she suddenly flashed back to the one allowed hour of shopping and stopped moving for a while -- I'm just imagining living in, say, a major US city in the 1960s, and how many Holocaust survivors I would have walked past in the street without even knowing it .... and how many people had experiences like the one Griesbach had in that shop, and then were helped by someone else who was recovering from the same thing, and saw what was happening and recognized it.
posted by brainwane at 8:50 PM on May 27, 2020 [4 favorites]
The incident in the store, where she suddenly flashed back to the one allowed hour of shopping and stopped moving for a while -- I'm just imagining living in, say, a major US city in the 1960s, and how many Holocaust survivors I would have walked past in the street without even knowing it .... and how many people had experiences like the one Griesbach had in that shop, and then were helped by someone else who was recovering from the same thing, and saw what was happening and recognized it.
posted by brainwane at 8:50 PM on May 27, 2020 [4 favorites]
Wow wow wow. Amazing story, thanks for posting and good luck to Marga.
posted by Red Desk at 12:12 AM on May 28, 2020
posted by Red Desk at 12:12 AM on May 28, 2020
Wow.
posted by freethefeet at 4:36 AM on May 28, 2020
posted by freethefeet at 4:36 AM on May 28, 2020
Such a worthwhile read.
posted by mightshould at 7:03 AM on May 28, 2020
posted by mightshould at 7:03 AM on May 28, 2020
Well, it sure makes me think I'm a petty bitch for whining about quarantine when I could have lived through the Holocaust. I needed that.
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:50 PM on May 28, 2020
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:50 PM on May 28, 2020
This is not an easy read and honestly there were such vividly disturbing anecdotes in some ways it reminded me of John Hersey's Hiroshima, but it was well worth the read.
posted by mostly vowels at 9:03 AM on May 29, 2020
posted by mostly vowels at 9:03 AM on May 29, 2020
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