Dancing With the Enemy Quotes

“Another elderly man told me he couldn’t talk about the events of the war with his children because they didn’t want to know about it. Absolutely nothing. “It confuses and saddens me, because it’s something they ought to know, and I don’t have a lot of time left,” he said. “I understand how they feel to a certain extent. They’re busy and have other concerns, but at the same time I refuse to accept that you can’t share important facts and feelings within your own family. It’s important. I know what happens if you don’t talk about it. Before you know it, it leaves a cavity. I couldn’t talk about it myself for years, but things changed after therapy and I want to tell my children about it, come what may.” I was struck by the contrast: his children didn’t want to know, and my father refused to tell. The guests of my own generation”
― Paul Glaser, Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret