Reply To: What Will Become Of All The Memories?

Earlier in this thread, I wrote a story about my grandfather in the camps, when someone had stolen some butter.

I was by my parents for Sukkos, and mentioned that he had told me that. My mother said that wasn’t what happened, and she’d heard it differently. She said the version I heard was from a movie about the Holocaust, and I must have mixed them up. I know I didn’t. However, when my grandfather told it to me, he was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease, so it’s possible that he mixed them up.

My mother said that when the SS guard was pointing the gun at my grandfather’s head, about to shoot, the head of the camp came running out, yelling. The guard stopped. The commandant said to him, “This group is the hardest working group in the camp! You’re killing all my best workers!” The guard turned around and walked away.

Because my grandfather is not alive anymore, I guess I’ll never know for sure which way it really happened.