Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

72 years ago today, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. Some historians say he killed himself with a cyanide capsule, others say he shot himself...

I can commemorate the Holocaust, but I can't do much more. I can't imagine it, I can't describe it, I can't understand...

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

The Ovens at Auschwitz "Three hundred and sixty corpses every half hour, which was all the time it took to reduce human flesh to ash...

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

For 30 years, I have been reading memoirs and histories about Poles who survived the atrocities imposed on them by the Russians and the ...