Lisa’s Reviews > Shmuel's Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father > Status Update

"On the grounds of suffering, alone, I understood myself to be the lesser person, so much further from the flames than my father. Wasn't I meant to understand myself as less? Jewishness seemed to me to be as much about withstanding and learning from suffering as other accomplishments. Without that endurance, the values of Jewishness… would have vanished."