Shelly Sanders > Quotes

“He said funerals were for the living, not the dead, and that I’d regret it forever if I didn’t say goodbye.”
― Shelly Sanders, Daughters of the Occupation: A Novel of WWII – An Unforgettable Story of Three Generations, Holocaust Survival, and Family Secrets

“Before delving into my family’s history, I’d never heard about the Rumbula forest massacre, where 26,000 Jews were killed over two nights, a tragedy in the manner and on the scale of Ukraine’s Babi Yar. I knew practically nothing about Latvia, its Soviet and Nazi occupations, and the fact that the execution of 90 percent of its Jews (including twenty-six of my relatives) was organized by a death squad also employed at Babi Yar, SS-Einsatzgruppen.”
― Shelly Sanders, Daughters of the Occupation: A Novel of WWII – An Unforgettable Story of Three Generations, Holocaust Survival, and Family Secrets