Arranged both chronologically and thematically (specifically, divided into 10 sections with headings ranging from "The Lottery of Life and Death" to "Emergence Into Light"), this collection of writings was brought to life during a series of survivor writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. Each vignette is a vivid invocation of a childhood lost to pain, terror, and humiliation. The "message" pervasive throughout FLARES OF MEMORY is not, however, one of hate. Rather, these testimonies bear witness to "the most cruel mistakes of European civilization during the Holocaust so that future generations will never be part of such atrocities."

   --- Reviewed by Lazarus Penultimate

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