Ultra-Orthodox Yad Vashem - Tomer Appelbaum / BauBau - 09012012
Ultra-Orthodox men visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in
Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Photo by Tomer Appelbaum
/ BauBau Text size this story is by  "Maybe you'll reconsider?"
Shoshi Horowitz pleads with her mother, Hanna Glendoar. "We have
to fill in a Page of Testimony, and we have to do it now." But
Glendoar, aged 85, shrugs her shoulders and once again refuses.
"It puts me off a little, I don't know why," she says,
immediately adding: "It has no connection to the fact that I'm
Haredi."  She can't explain the profound internal obstacle. The
information she has is a gold mine for quite a number of people
- her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, over 200
people, as evidenced by the family tree hanging in her living
room - who have never heard from her in any systematic way what
happened to her during "that" period, the Holocaust, and the
names of her 44 relatives who were killed, out of a total of 48
before the wa