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Tales of the Third Generation

JL;DR SUMMARY Jamie Betesh Carter reflects on the unique connection and responsibility that third-generation Holocaust survivors, or 3Gs, feel towards their family's history. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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BrooklynHolocaustFilmInheritanceJewish HeritageTraumaSurvivorsFamily HistoryJesse EisenbergThird Generation

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Nonetheless, when I was growing up in Brooklyn, the Holocaust wasnt only something I learned about in school, or in books."
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
"For me, it was a no-brainer to head back to Brooklyn from Amherst, Massachusetts, and interview Jack Ratz, our next-door neighbor."
Poland
"My grandfathers family somehow escaped Poland during the pogroms and made it to the U.S. in 1922."
New Jersey, United States
"And every three years or so, she would come to my familys house in New Jersey, and she would sit there and no one asked her anything about her past because she had survived the war and had a traumatic life."

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