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John Seelye

John Seelye is the author of several books, including War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Colonialism and Jane Eyre's American Daughters. He is graduate research professor of American Literature at the University of Florida.

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A Mother’s Secret

by Werner Gundersheimer

In this 2011 essay, Werner Gundersheimer remembers his mother’s efforts to preserve a version of his childhood free of the Holocaust’s painful scars. “We all know that memory is selective, and that the mind blots out what it can’t bear to retain,” he writes. “For [Mom], the past was always present, and the only way to keep it at bay was to steer clear of it.”

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