Miralicious’s Reviews > Behind the Curtain, the Candles Burn: Recovering the Lost Stories of the Holocaust Survivors of Belarus > Status Update

‘A few members of the Jewish community asked Mikhail why he was working with Messianic believers and suggested it might be better to keep some distance…Mikhail responded, “During the war, the Nazis tried to control me and could not. After the war, the Communists tried to tell me what to believe, but they failed. Now, I am certainly not going to be told how to behave or who I can or cannot be friends with.”’