Despite the tendencies of popular culture, there are very few happy-ending Holocaust stories rooted in reality. We crave the neat resolution of traditional story-telling, but the lives of European Jews in the Forties rarely ended on an uplifting note. Our observance of Tisha B’Av, the fast of the Ninth of Av this evening, will focus on night and fog: poems and vignettes that allow us to connect with suffering, anger, and truth telling in dark times. Our purpose is not to discover brightly lit exceptions, but the impossible realities of terror and betrayal. We will begin with a chanted excerpt from the Scroll of Lamentations and then move to the poetry and story-telling of the Holocaust.

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