The True Survivors of the Holocaust

Author Peter Wyden says he doesn’t regard himself as a Holocaust survivor and reserves that classification for German Jews who were still in the country on Kristallnacht, Nov. 9, 1938 (“Fascinated by a Memory,” Dec. 21).

Even that definition cheapens, or dilutes, the meaning of Holocaust survivor. I lived through Kristallnacht in Berlin, but in no way am I a survivor. That application should be limited to people who were actually in concentration camps or living underground from 1941-42 on.

TOM TUGEND

Sherman Oaks