BIROBIDZHAN
When author Alina Adams speaks to groups, she often asks: What was the first independent Jewish state of the twentieth century? After a...
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May 11, 20238 min
FICTION OR NON-FICTION?
There are readers who love fiction; there are readers who seek only nonfiction; there are readers who gravitate toward memoirs. Now,...
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Apr 4, 20236 min
BACK IN THE NEWS
The Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-1980, which forms the backdrop of my debut novel Escaping the Whale, refuses to go away. Recently, it...
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Jan 26, 202314 min
DON'T ASK DON'T TELL
"They protected me by not talking; I protected them by not asking." Leo and his parents With these words, Leo Turkel succinctly describes...
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Oct 13, 20228 min
EXPLORING THE PAST
Willie Handler knew that his father, born in Wislica, Poland, spent the war years in 7 different concentration camps and that his...
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Jul 11, 20228 min
THE CRATE
"Growing up in our house had been like walking on glass, as if the people might shatter at any time." With these words, 2G author Debbie...
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Jun 2, 202210 min
INTENTIONAL CHOICES
Peggy Wonder was not born with the last name "Wonder." She chose it. While working on a craft project at the age of 27, she was struck...
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Apr 18, 202211 min
PAYING IT FORWARD
Janice Friebaum experienced a metamorphosis in her life. Her father was a Holocaust survivor and she was always aware of the fact that...
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Mar 23, 202213 min
SEARCHING
Abe Mazliach has spent most of his life searching -- searching to feel comfortable in the United States and in school, searching for...
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Mar 8, 20229 min
WRITING THROUGH PAIN
Mirla Raz knows what it is like to write about something upsetting. A retired speech pathologist who had written speech-related books...
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Feb 19, 20229 min
AUTHOR
Bernice Lerner is the author of two Holocaust-related books. Her first book, The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors'...
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Feb 9, 202213 min
MOVER AND SHAKER
Sheryl Bronkesh, president of the Phoenix Holocaust Association, has steered this organization toward a more expansive and...
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Feb 1, 20227 min
OPENING FLOODGATES
Above, Sally Lefton-Wolfe holds up her book, The Survivor's Legacy, in which she tells the stories of several children of Holocaust...
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Jan 18, 202212 min
LIVING THE HOLOCAUST
If a parent glosses over her Holocaust experiences, how does that affect the child? Tanya Seaman has been dealing with that question her...
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Jan 9, 20228 min
BACK TO POLAND
Many children of survivors imagine what it would be like to visit the places where their parents endured the horrors of the Holocaust and...
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