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Show Rose (1/25/83) page 49 ~. r. K r.:r. ~ Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K ~r. R lVIr. K Mr. R Yeah, that's what happened. My mother and ~Y grandmother escaped. My aunt and their family and their children died. My father's uarents died. ~ Y father's sister died. Did they really have that much money? No, they had a little .. they had something. One of them was a docto ~ So, what held him there? My mother doesn't know. She went to warn them ••• Now, if you saw the picture of the 3ollocaust from something like that. you found this Jewish German woman with this tremendous pride that she was a German, you see, and I never really stopped to think ho~ valid a reason that really was for me. I always respect some-body elses reasons •. not always, but a great majority of the time I respect somebody elses reasons. Eut, I never, and I'm prepared to respect them for the it reason l.for somebody else, but whet her it would be for me or not I don't know. Going up in the hills would b~ never-. a challenge to my Americanism to me. It would be "do I want to survive or don't I?" A lot of people I've interviewed have made a statement that I'm beginning to understand better, I can't say that I have full sym-pathy for, to be honest, but they say "I'm an American first, Jew second , and I think of Jewishness as a religion: What do you think of a statement like this? I've prejudiced it, I'm sorry, I usually don't do that. Well, I'll try to answer it because I've answered this one before, too. At least I've answered it to ~yself. I can't tell you what being a Jew is. It's certainly a religion, but it's more than that. It's a tradition, and it's more than that. It's a culture, |
