Not to Forget, Impossible to Forgive

Memoirs of Avital, born to the Doft-Lipschitz family in Bilke, Ruthenia (now in Ukraine), in 1929. Pt. 3 (pp. 101-166), "Imprisoning the Jews", describes his experiences in the Holocaust. In March 1944 he and his family, with all the Jews of Bilke, were sent briefly to the Beregszasz ghetto and then to Auschwitz. His parents and five of his ten siblings perished in the Holocaust. Avital was sent to Płaszów, and then to the Bolkenhain labor camp, which was a satellite of Gross-Rosen. In January 1945 he was sent on a death march to Buchenwald, where he was interned in the children's block and later liberated. He emigrated to Eretz Israel in summer 1945. Pt. 5 (pp. 225-304), "Reflections and Analyses", briefly discuss Holocaust theology, international responses to the Holocaust, European collaboration, the role of the Vatican, Muslim involvement, and Holocaust denial. Pt. 6 (pp. 305-334), "Educating Today's Generation about the Holocaust", deals with Holocaust study and teaching.