by Hanna Miley | Mar 15, 2022 | Blog
“The first celebration of Purim” Purim 2022 March 16 and 17 Purim, the Jewish feast celebrates deliverance from certain death 2,500 years ago, in Persia, present day Iran. Haman, villainous enemy of the Jewish people, plots their destruction and is thwarted by...
by Hanna Miley | Feb 8, 2022 | Blog
1938 The year is 1938 and we had just been expelled from the local Protestant schools in Gemünd and Schleiden. The Jewish community scrambled to create a one room school in Kall installing Moses Fernbach as teacher. I remembered a photograph of our new school in...
by Hanna Miley | Jan 17, 2022 | Blog
Hanna Zack Miley holding her autobiography, A Garland For Ashes The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27, 2022 marking the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, is One Day. Yesterday, 13th January, Amy Williams invited me to join historian, Professor Bill Niven...
by Hanna Miley | Jan 4, 2022 | Blog
Jewish Remembrance week Görlitz, 2021 Görlitz to Phoenix via Birmingham Boxing Day 2021 Today I’m mending a little wooden train engine and carriage that arrived uncoupled from its secure place attached to a Christmas tree. Yesterday, Christmas Day, I discovered a...
by Hanna Miley | Dec 15, 2021 | Blog
“The Yellow Crucifixion” by Mark Chagall being viewed at The Contemporary Art Center of Landerneau (photo by Fred Tanneau) Marc Chagall 1887 – 1985 Marc Chagall’s fascination with Jesus and the Cross intrigues me. After all he was a shtetl Jew, born in Vitebsk,...
