« I had had for ten years selected silence. But how not to shout
when my children, my close relations, my readers question me. They know
that I am a witness of cruelty. Does that start again? they ask me.
They speak about profaned cemeteries. Words of hatred. war. Concern.
Do violence the injustice, racism, go to always darken the future of
the men? I must answer these anguishes. I must show to other ways for
L ' man. I must say that the hope remains. I want that my anger is heard,
and also my hope. »
At eighty-two years, Martin Gray is the alive memory tragedy of XXè
century, and the incarnation of the hope in thelife. Escaped prisoner
of death camp of Treblinka, combatant of the ghetto of Warsaw, itenters
as a winner in Berlin with the Russian army. With State-Plain, it makes
fortune. In France, where it saw, the tragedy strikes it again. Its
wife and her four children succumb in a fire of forest close to Cannes.
This misfortune, it fact a force. Its books, « For those I
loved » and ten other works bring, wisdom, reason of living
and hoping to million readers in the world.
« For those I loved » is a cry of anger, an act
of fraternity and a message of hope.
