My Heart Weeps Within is about the Jewish community in Antwerp, and especially about the terrible fate that befell the Antwerp Jews during the Second World War. In their very accessible text, the authors do not aim to open up all kinds of new sources or to put forward new theses, they are more concerned with sketching a coherent and historically correct picture of the fate of this population group.

For a long time, the Shoah in Antwerp was commemorated mainly in the seclusion of the Jewish community. In the last ten years or so, the relative silence has been broken.

The second part of Van binnen weent mijn hart consists of ten interviews with witnesses from Antwerp. Their stories focus on the individual experience of anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews in Antwerp, before the actual deportation. The spotlight is therefore less on the horror in the camps themselves, because this aspect is the best known.

The authors of this book are active in the Sint-Egidius community, which organizes an annual torchlight procession in collaboration with the Jewish community to commemorate the Jewish and other victims of Nazi persecution. They do not want to forget and thus embody the statement of Elie Wiesel: 'Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness himself.'

Viviane is still going to read the book.