Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

Mother’s Day Poem I remember my mother, her old house, the miracle of her lov...

My wife's Uncle Buddy was one of the GIs who liberated the many concentration camps in Nazi Germany.  Several years ago he was interview...

My friend the writer Christina Sanantonio and I have been having a conversation about writing about loss.   It’s a conversation that start...

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...