Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

On April 11, 1945, American troops liberated Buchnewald Concentration Camp.  It was a large camp housing about 80,000 prisoners, Poles, Sl...

My father grew up in poverty, an orphan working on a farm in Poland. When he was 20, he was taken to a concentration camp in Germany.  ...

My parents met in a concentration camp in Germany toward the end of World War II. My mom had been brought to Germany by the Nazis to wor...

My mother died seven years ago this January 18.  She died in a hospice in Sun City, Arizona.   When she died, we had her funeral s...

73 years ago on September 1. 1939, the Germans invaded Poland. Their blitzkrieg, their lightning war, came from the air and the sea and ...

My friend Barry Koplan invited me to speak to his class about my parents and their experiences in World War II.  Afterward, he wrote the ...

When I was a child growing up in Chicago, All Souls Day wasn't a big deal. But in Poland it was.  At least that's what my parents s...