Word: paltiel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survivors' meeting after a fellow prisoner suggested that if they came out alive they might some day meet as free men. "We all laughed," Michel recalled. "But the idea stayed with those of us who made it." In Jerusalem, he tracked down three acquaintances from Auschwitz. When Julius Paltiel from Trondheim, Norway, threw his arms around Michel, the American said, "You see, we made it!" To criticism by some survivors who stayed home that the gathering would revive traumatic memories, Michel replied, "We are meeting because we want to see and touch each other again. We want to celebrate...
...different kind of angst: the transformation from practicing Jew to militant Communist, a journey taken by thousands of thinkers and millions of chanting followers from the steps of the Winter Palace to the barbed wire of the Gulag. Wiesel reduces that odyssey to the tale of a single wanderer, Paltiel Kossover, a minor poet whose life becomes a battle between the divine and the dialectic...
...Paltiel's memoirs are smuggled out of prison by a sympathetic court stenographer who passes the manuscript to Kossover's mute son Grisha. The boy's inability to speak is the symbolic disability of a new generation. But Grisha escapes his father's fate when he emigrates to Israel with the tale committed to memory...
...Testament follows Paltiel through a roiled landscape: Berlin and Paris in the '30s, party betrayals during the Spanish Civil War, a mission to Palestine, back to Russia where he becomes a gravedigger in the last days...