.hannahorens spoke with three women about what it means to be a descendant of Holocaust survivors in an increasingly anti-Semitic cultural climate
Photo-Illustration: by the Cut; Photos courtesy of the subject. When my great-uncle Henry Orenstein died of COVID-19 in December at the age of 98, it was the end of an era for my family. We didn’t just lose him — we also lost our last living connection to the Holocaust.
There has never been a more important time to understand the legacy Holocaust survivors are leaving behind. Anti-Semitism continues to rise in this country: 39 percent of Jews reported changing their behavior due to fear of persecution in 2020, and, even more disturbing, some anti-vaxxers are now co-opting Holocaust imagery, comparing themselves to victims and health officials to Nazis. At the same time, the youngest Holocaust survivors turn 77 this year.
When I went on Birthright at 19, I visited the Yad Vashem museum, which is the Holocaust memorial. It was jarring. They took part of the road from one of the concentration camps and put it in the museum, and you see a pile of shoes that are encased in glass to preserve them, and you walk on the glass as if you are these children. My roommate and I were in tears. My great-uncle put names in the memorial, and my mom sent over a list and wanted me to go look it up.
Lux Alptraum, 39, Brooklyn, N.Y. My paternal grandma, Ida, was terrifying when I was a kid. I wouldn’t say that I was close to her, or that I had a loving relationship with her, because she was somebody who had lived through unspeakable horrors and was very traumatized and did not necessarily come through it as someone inspiring or lovable.
I have no memory of someone sitting me down and telling me about the Holocaust, which I think about a lot now because my sister has two kids, ages 7 and 3. I’m very curious about how she plans to talk to them about the Holocaust because they’ll never know our grandparents. I don’t know what it’s going to mean for them when it becomes more abstract. At the same time, their grandmother on their dad’s side has relatives who are experiencing a genocide right now in Tigray.
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