The Unendurable

The grandparents, having

themselves escaped the

monumental catastrophe of

the Holocaust merely lived

lives of livid rage that their

close and remote relatives

perished in a precision-designed

disaster that successfully and

hugely diminished the presence

of Jews globally.  Haunted by

the spectre of Jew-specific

hatred and the legacy of the

hunted, they sought to spare

their children the knowledge

of being of a "race" none 

had use or compassion toward,

concerned the fearsome truth

might destroy the appetite for

life.  As parents those children

devoid of the shadow of pain

had nothing to divulge to their

own offspring.  Who now, of

necessity to know, turn to

their grandparents to unleash

upon them the dread details

meant to inform and instruct

minds sturdy enough to endure.