Daniel Terna experienced neither the Holocaust that nearly killed his father nor the war that spawned it, but since childhood he has been immersed in the inherited trauma.
It's been 75 years since the liberation of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, four of which Frederick Terna passed through, including Auschwitz.
"Not a day goes by that you don't think about your father and what he's gone through," he told AFP from their peaceful Brooklyn home."You can't really understand it. You can't conceptualize of it."When Daniel was a child Frederick, who was released in 1945 from the Kaufering labor camp in Bavaria, recalls the Holocaust"was a subject matter that did not have to be elaborated on.
With hindsight Daniel says the black and white archival images"proved both confounding and influential." He says discovering the serialized graphic novel"Maus" -- the 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner that sees the author Art Spiegelman interview his father about surviving the Holocaust -- brought into relief what his father's generation went through.The 32-year-old sees some of these traits in himself: Daniel also avoids uniforms and firearms, and never goes anywhere without an identification document.
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