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Apr 16, 20252 min read
Experiencing Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, and Joyce Maynard
I have just returned from a memoir writing workshop retreat, called “Write By the Lake,” at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, with Joyce Maynard. A long (we never say old) dear friend, Valerie, went exactly one year ago and told me to immediately sign up. I did. As I learned at the retreat, I am making a list of the words that describe the experiences of spending a week in rural and rugged Guatemala at Lake Atitlan and with Joyce Maynard, surrounded by thirty- four varieties of bird
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Revisiting My Mother’s Holocaust Experiences
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, was January 27, commemorating the genocide of two thirds of the European Jewish population by the German Nazis. This is the day which aligns with the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in which over 1.2 million Jews were murdered. My Mother was a Holocaust survivor of five work concentration camps in Poland. She survived the unspeakable, and screamed of it
Feb 252 min read
Revisiting My Father’s Holocaust Experiences
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, was January 27, commemorating the genocide of two thirds of the European Jewish population by the German Nazis. This is the day which aligns with the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in which over 1.2 million Jews were murdered. My father was a Holocaust survivor of Treblinka concentration camp where nearly one million Jews were killed. He was among the
Feb 182 min read
