Sam Chaiton > Quotes

“For me, survival depended on disappearing in the same way my mother’s and father’s survival depended on their silence. Maybe not the best course of action for any of us, but could we have done things differently? I wish my parents were here so I could ask them, preferably in the language of their youth.”
― Sam Chaiton, We Used to Dream of Freedom: A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust, and the Stories We Don't Tell