As a child, I never knew exactly what my dad did, but…
About the Author: Susan Martin
Susan Martin writes about gender, fertility and memory from the perspective of a non-Jewish person walking on the soil where the killing of millions of Jewish people took place. She studies the boundaries between historical record and the recording of memory in the body as it influences current cultural issues of gender identity. This article originally appeared in Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute (see: www.thepublicdiscourse.com) and is reprinted with permission.
