From: CYMA2 at aol.com <CYMA2>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:13:17 EDT

I found "Tomi: A Childhood Under the Nazis" on the adult biography shelf at our local bookstore quite close to Lowry's "Looking Back." The Ungerer book is fascinating with illustrations, postcards, etc. that give an unusual glimpse of a way of life of the time. Every life is a story, sounds trite, but we hear so few of the stories. My son, who is a Jehovahs Witness, tells me that the Holocaust Museum in Washington is an enormously popular destination for visits by Jehovahs Witnesses because their losses are recorded there. We forget too, that Gypsies were murdered by the thousands by the Nazis; they continue to be persecuted to this day throughout Europe.
"Bury Me Standing" is an interesting non-fictional account of their history in Europe. Being politically correct seems hard to define when you think of all the varieties of belief. Sheila Hussey
Received on Wed 07 Apr 1999 08:13:17 PM CDT