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Around the time of Susanne and Half ’s deaths, Marianne and Leo had embarked on a joint research project investigating the Jewish community of the Bukovina (see Hirsch and Spitzer forthcoming), an area of the Hapsburg Empire, then in Romania and currently part of the Ukraine, where Marianne’s parents had grown up. In addition to trying to document how that community was destroyed through the Second World War and the Holocaust, they have been exploring the forms through which the community survived in other places and in the memories passed on from parents to children.
This is what had made me desperate: On January 2, 2005, my father and mother were returning to White Plains from a chiropractic evaluation of my father’s back pains in Connecticut. As usual, Dad took the exit too fast, only this time he lost control of his beautiful new sky blue Cadillac. The car spun around, slid off the road and toward a rock wall. A tree just in front of the rock face stopped [ 40 ] S TA L K E D B Y DA D DY ’ S WA R the spinning and probably saved my parents’ lives. The Cadillac was totaled.
Along with many others, I mourned for a long, long time. I grieved the violence of Susanne and Half ’s deaths, their lives cut off in their creative prime, the losses of the excellent guidance they had constantly offered me in matters personal and professional, their humor, their love for each other, their love for me. I grieved for my adopted parents. I experienced the first months as a roller coaster of numbness and intense grief that alternated with persistent refusals to accept that my friends were dead.