I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir By Esther Safran Foer Tim Duggan Book $27.00, 226 pp. Though her parents didn’t talk about it, Esther Safran Foer knew she had lost family members, even close relatives, in the Holocaust—she just didn’t know how close. “My childhood was filled with silences,” she writes, “that were punctuated by occasional shocking disclosures.” Born to survivors in a displaced persons’ camp, brought to the U.S. as a small child with false papers, she was already in her forties when her mother casually mentioned that her father had had a previous wife and daughter who were murdered by the Nazis. Foer, astounded, realized that the victims of the Holocaust included her own half-sister.  Her father by then was long dead, a victim of suicide—another fact never discussed in the family. The...

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