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Coles Running For Their Lives - Part I of Our Family Holocaust Chronicle at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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I need to tell you this story because, now that I am 66,
it feels as if I have carried it for a long time.
It is my pre-history and was told to me by my
parents, my uncle and aunt, my cousin, and brother in
separate slices, all with the aim of ensuring that I knew
where they and I came from. I am perhaps the only
one who heard from all of them. Perhaps they all
intended to give me a gift to pass on.
It is the story of how they, and ultimately their
children, were torn from a milieu where their families
had lived for generations and then were thrown into
the chaotic storm of World War II and its aftermath. It
is about their luck in avoiding the Holocaust. It is
about the courage involved in leaving everything
behind, to run away in order to live, to prevail by
surviving and to rebuild a normal life in a new home.
It is also about the costs of doing so. This is my
retelling of what they told me since it also became my
story. To some extent it is a story that has affected all
their descendants. The story must, in part, go on. And
because I am the only one who heard from all of them,
I am under a compulsion, which they also passed to
me, to tell and retell what I have been told and what I
have lived with and to recount it with as much love
and truth as I can muster.
I need to tell you this story because, now that I am 66,
it feels as if I have carried it for a long time.
It is my pre-history and was told to me by my
parents, my uncle and aunt, my cousin, and brother in
separate slices, all with the aim of ensuring that I knew
where they and I came from. I am perhaps the only
one who heard from all of them. Perhaps they all
intended to give me a gift to pass on.
It is the story of how they, and ultimately their
children, were torn from a milieu where their families
had lived for generations and then were thrown into
the chaotic storm of World War II and its aftermath. It
is about their luck in avoiding the Holocaust. It is
about the courage involved in leaving everything
behind, to run away in order to live, to prevail by
surviving and to rebuild a normal life in a new home.
It is also about the costs of doing so. This is my
retelling of what they told me since it also became my
story. To some extent it is a story that has affected all
their descendants. The story must, in part, go on. And
because I am the only one who heard from all of them,
I am under a compulsion, which they also passed to
me, to tell and retell what I have been told and what I
have lived with and to recount it with as much love
and truth as I can muster.
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