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Answer #4:
Being the child of holocaust survivors had a huge impact on my childhood, with little normalcy. Everything about me was different — from the inborn protectiveness of my parents to my perception and outlook on life in general.
I was raised on horrific holocausts stories. As a matter of fact, my first encounter with fairy tales was in a Children’s Literature class in college, and my favorite, by the way, was and still is Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince.”
Additionally, I never allowed myself to act out my childhood so I grew up probably sooner than I should have. I never dared to misbehave because being ‘bad’ meant upsetting my parents and that was not an option because they’d suffered enough in the holocaust.
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