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For Holocaust Day, Jeff Jacoby re-ups an article about his Dad that was published in 1999. This is heart-rending: Once I asked my father what had been uppermost in his mind when he was in the camps. Had there been something he always concentrated on, a mantra he clung to, a goal he never lost sight of?I was hoping, I suppose, for something lapidary. Something like the exhortation of Simon Dubnov