THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHES

WHAT COLOR WAS THE HOLOCAUST? PROBABLY WHITE. The Angel of Deathhad white wings and a white cape. My grandmother sewed her own shroud in theTeresienstadt camp and it was white. The shroud looked like the white cloaks that myfather and his friends would wear on Yom Kippur for the service at our Yekkesynagogue in Jerusalem. Dr. Yosef Mengele wore a white coat in his “clinic.” TheAryans were the white master race. Half the stripes on the camp prisoner’s uniformswere white. The snow on the tracks from Auschwitz to Birkenau was exceptionallywhite and exceptionally frozen. My father never had a tan. The Shoah may have beenall white. If not, at least the Shoah blindness was white, like in José Saramago’sbook.Everybody thinks that blindness is black. “The patient sees black,” theophthalmologist in Saramago’s book Blindness, notes. If the sighted see colors andhues, the blind should see the opposite, no color whatsoever and black is an absolutenon-color. White, on the other hand, is all colors. The Shoah had all the humancolors, from the worst of evil to the noblest of good. Shoah blindness, like the colorwhite, is also all-encompassing. It is present in our lives everywhere, even when wedo not see it and do not feel it.