Kulka has survived, he tells us, by keeping professional history on one side (relegated here to the appendix) and privately guarded memory and experience on the other (now here exposed to the full light of day).
Newsweek's Jerusalem bureau chief, Dan Ephron, added, "Even as Israel zealously guards the memory of the genocide, many Israelis invoke it frivolously in a manner that can seem shocking to outsiders and might even be illegal in some countries," like Germany, where the public display of Nazi symbols remains banned by law.
Few people ever truly "get over" the loss of a close loved one but most people find a special place in their heart that guards the memory and essence of the lost person for life.
I am still trying, and I think I am successful in guarding the memory".
Nevertheless, the relatives, friends and colleagues of the six who died in the Waldbaum's fire have passionately guarded their memory, making sure their remembrance is distinct and not overshadowed.
We take this so much for granted that we struggle to deny it to a few Amazonian tribes still beyond its reach – as if guarding the memory of our former selves.
Later it was returned to relatives who passed on the family treasure to later generations who guarded the memory of Mary Mangan, a 32-year-old emigrant from Addergoole parish and a passenger in steerage with 13 others from the same impoverished town in Western Ireland.
Scenes depicting the guard's memories of his previous life as an opera singer, performing Dido's lament in "Dido and Aeneas" -- itself a tale of interracial love -- powerfully evoke the universality of loss and mortality, as well as the poignancy of love that defies social taboos.
His favorite lines were at the end of the record, when Arthur (played by Richard Burton), before his final battle, asks his page not to go to the battle but to guard his memories of Camelot carefully, like a "candle in the wind" (the title of the last book of "The Once and Future King"): "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot".
This "guarded approach to memory" is common in Munich, says Gavriel Rosenfeld, an American historian.
