The Will To Tell

The story of the life of our late father Yitzhak Weizman was only revealed to us, his three children, when we were already parents to our own children.

We always knew that he was a Holocaust survivor. He had the number 145227 tattooed on his arm.

But he told us very little about his Holocaust experiences. "It was a long time ago," he used to say, and "Polanyah" (as we called Poland at the time) seemed very far away. We studied in school and read books about it, but the Holocaust was not prese...