Carole Angier
The Living Reminders
The Forger
By Cioma Schönhaus
Granta Books 200pp £9.99 order from our bookshop
The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto
By Susan Lee Pentlin (ed)
Oneworld Publications 350pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
In a few years the last Holocaust survivors will be gone, and memory will begin to hand over to history. Our understanding will change, perhaps for the better. But when you watch children take in the seamed faces and tattooed arms on Holocaust Memorial Day, you know that something important will be missing: the living reminder that they are just like us, and yet it happened; that it happened in ordinary time, and so could happen again.
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