Two hundred generations of European Jews. All gone, just as if they’d never been. It was the first time it was really real for me–just as if I were standing at the top of a ladder and somebody yanked the ladder away–and I was still standing there, only now it was *possible* to fall, because all my connections had been cut away, and there I was looking down into empty space, thinking about how I’d come this close to just not existing at all.

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