Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Today, June 6, is the anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe.  It's a day that means a lot to me.  My parents were two of the mi...

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) begins in the evening of Wednesday, April 18, 2012, and ends in the evening of Thursday, April 19...

April 11 was the 67th anniversary of the liberation of  Buchenwald Concentration Camp. My dad spent four and a half years there.  ...

One of the things that immigrant poets are always writing about is home.  We write about the homes we left behind, imagine what they were li...

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...

My mother died six years ago, January 27, 2006. She died in a hospice in Sun City, Arizona. It was a beautiful place, out in the desert, c...