Quotation by Irena Klepfisz

The Holocaust was not an event that ended in 1945Mat least not for the survivors. Not for me. It continued on and on because my mother and I were alone. Because my father's family no longer existed and I was its sole survivor. It continued on in the struggle of extreme poverty that we experience in the early years in this country. It continued on and on, coloring every thought I had, every decision I made. It continued on in the Bronx, on ordinary streets, at the kitchen table. It continued on invisible.
Irena Klepfisz (b. 1941), U.S. Jewish lesbian author; born in Poland. "Resisting and Surviving America," 1982. Dreams of an Insomniac, part 2 (1990).

Klepfisz, a Jew born in Poland in 1941, escaped the 1943 Warsaw Uprising; her father had been killed on the second day of the Uprising. After some years in Sweden, she and her mother emigrated to New York City.
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