Tag Archives: father’s and daughters
Learning a New Language
by Janet R. Kirchheimer (New York, NY) My father is teaching me German. He still speaks fluently, even though he escaped from Nazi Germany almost seventy years ago when he was seventeen. We study nouns and verbs. We study when … Continue reading
Filed under American Jewry, Family history, poetry
Rosh Hashanah: The First Without My Father
by Jane Ruth Falon (Elkins Park, PA) I hadn’t been with my parents for decades at their synagogue (in a church, with Love Never Faileth on the wall above the bimah, and their newish Jewish Japanese rabbi), but I always … Continue reading
Filed under American Jewry
My Father Is Arrested
by Ellen Norman Stern (Willow Grove, PA) The knock on the door of our Berlin apartment came around five o’clock one dark morning in May of 1938. It was the favorite time of day for the Gestapo to make house … Continue reading
Filed under European Jewry, Family history, Jewish identity
