Tag Archives: Holocaust
Light Music
by Ilan Braun (Le Tour-du-Parc, Brittany, France) Have you ever heard On a summer evening The violins and the cellos sobbing While high in the sky Swallows are dancing A place where the bows on too tight cords Are running … Continue reading
Filed under European Jewry, history
Reunion in Oswego
by Ellen Norman Stern (Willow Grove, PA) Late summer of 1945. The war was finally over. It was a strange time, an unreal time. True, Germany had been defeated. There would be no more casualties among the sons of friends. … Continue reading
Filed under American Jewry, European Jewry, German Jewry, Jewish identity
One Holocaust Movie Too Many
by Mel Glenn (Brooklyn, NY) How many times can you see the broken bodies piled high at Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen? How many times can you stare into the vacant eyes of prisoners crammed into three-tiered bunks? How many times can … Continue reading
Filed under American Jewry, poetry
My Father Is Dying
by David Merkler (Barcelona, Spain) My father is dying and I don’t know how to handle it. My father is dying and I don’t believe in G-d. My father is dying and I’m having difficulty seeing justice in the world. … Continue reading
Filed under European Jewry, Jewish identity
The Survivor
by Rafail Kosovsky (West Hollywood , CA ) Free or in captivity, I always feel that I am a Jew. I have forgotten the prayers my father taught me. I have forgotten the Hebrew alphabet and I consider myself a … Continue reading
Filed under American Jewry, European Jewry, Jewish identity
Mr. Blumen
by Chaim Weinstein (Brooklyn, NY) Stiffly they sit, side by side In sepia-flavored photo on the shelf Their hundred-year synced stories Now torn by jagged scythe most quick From the banshee-screaming reaper: The cossack’s rapier brandished high In Warsaw, slashed … Continue reading
Filed under Family history, Jewish identity
Devotion to Faith
by Roma Talasowicz-Eibuszyc (New York, NY) Translated from the Polish by Suzanna Eibuszyc (Calabasas, CA) Painful though this will be, I have decided that she is right. I do this not so much to preserve my own story, but rather … Continue reading
Filed under American Jewry, Family history, Polish Jewry
“Man is a Wolf”
by Lev Raphael (Okemos, MI) My demanding and charismatic mother has been dead for eleven years but I still often think about her, wishing she were alive. There’ll be a question I want to ask her about her past, or … Continue reading
Filed under American Jewry, Family history
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
