Second Generation groups

... During the World Gathering, the survivors’ chil- dren met to form an international network of Second Generation groups. Their purpose is to preserve Yid- dish culture and record the Jewish experience during the Holocaust. As I listened to the discussions among the Israeli, American and European children of survi- vors, I realized that we face many of the same conflicts Our parents confronted as modern young Jews in Poland in the 1930’s, even though we do not live in societies aS oppressive and openly anti-Semitic as that one. We too must confront the issues of our self-esteem and identity as Jews, and the meaning of life in the Diaspora and in the Holocaust, for, unlike the wistful Jewish socialists who tried to claim their rights as Pol- ish citizens, we have full knowledge of the murderous potential of civilized nations. ...