“Remember This” promotional photo | Sourced from Google A week ago I started to watch a one man show, a documentary on PBS based on the book Karski. How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust. Karski. How one man tried to stop the Holocaust. The actor, the...
What’s the best way to celebrate when you hear your family roots go back to Abraham and Sarah? We join the long line at a new pop-up, Little Pickle, a modern Jewish deli hid in the shadows cast by tall gleaming towers. Temporary location but offering bagels flown in...
Secret Agent | Photo by Francesca Tirico on Unsplash Of the Divine Conspiracy Thomas, Micah, Esther, Michael. The idea began with Thomas, he suggested that I should offer to give an interview and Micah applied on my behalf to the USC Shoah Foundation, Last Chance...
A German Reckons with History and Home Sometimes a book finds you, rather than you discovering a good read that satisfies your curiosity. Nora Krug’s book Belonging. A German Reckons with History and Home did just that. How did Belonging gain my attention? George and...
Reconciliation (originally named Reunion) is a sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos | Photo source: Jim Linwood Sent to Coventry An English idiom meaning to ostracize, or exclude I was sent to Coventry… A seven year old Jewish child, from a small, rural town at the...
Stolperstein for my parents, July 1, 2013. Gemünd, Germany | Photo by Thomas Cogdell Writing a blog, trying to unravel tangled thoughts. I am a German/Jewish Holocaust survivor whose parents perished in Poland, sitting at home in Arizona, on a cool January day,...
