"Holocaust Girls/Lemon" by S.L. Wisenburg

     I first read the excerpt about S.L. Wisenberg, and from the get go figured she would be a very satirical writer. The fact that her Web Blog is called Cancer Bitch was a very straight forward hint to that. Then, as I began reading the actual essay, and the first part was a song "We are the Holocaust Girls" to the tune of "Lollypop Guild" in the Wizard of Oz, I recognized indisputable satire. But as the Holocaust is a very touchy and unhumorous subject, I was curious to see where Wisenberg was going with this. But as I read, it dawned on me that even though Wisenberg wrote in second person, that she really was referring to herself. She was being extremely honest about how she views herself, and how people can become so entrenched in history that they can barely think of anything else. This was a very interesting piece, and I enjoyed trying to decode the meaning of the essay.