President. today I bring to the attention of the Senate the spiritual wounds genocide inflicted upon a young child. Michael Goldberg. Goldbergs book. "Namesake." which recounts his lifelong odyssey toward peace of mind. was reviewed in the New York Times on September 5. 1982. According to the review. Michael Goldberg was born in France in the late 1930s. the worst possible time to be a Jew in Europe. His father was deported during the war and died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz. His mother remarried. and to save her son from the Nazis. gave him his stepfathers nonJewish surname. She did not tell Michael that he was of Jewish origin.
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