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On Schindler's List: Leon Leyson's Story of Survival
By Miriam Metzinger
When the Nazis invaded Poland, Leon Leyson was ten years old. He recalls, "Suddenly, I lost my most basic rights. I was hungry and frightened all the time."
Society & Living » Jewish Life » On Schindler's List: Leon Leyson's Story of Survival
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A Dual Reality
Understanding Purim
By Miriam Cowen
There was a need to seek the truth. What was the truth about our parents' lives? What was it that they were not telling us? What was the hidden reality that they were concealing from us?
Women » Spirituality & the Feminine » Time in Thought » Purim & Adar » A Dual Reality
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The Cartwheel
Growing Up as a Child of Holocaust Survivors
By Catherine Roozman Weigensberg
When I was a child, I always felt different, an oddity among my peers whose parents had no foreign accents or horrific memories of Nazi death camps...
Women » Women's Narrative » Personal Stories » Dealing with Challenge » The Cartwheel
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Yetta Keller
The Journey of a Survivor
By Chana Lewis
In one corner stood a multitude of canes and walking sticks. This was the first of many visits with Yetta, an eighty-two-year-old Holocaust survivor. We sat down on her patterned couch, and soon, she began to talk...
Women » Women's Narrative » Jewish Women You Should Know » Yetta Keller
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Picking Up the Pieces
By Rivka Schnytzer
Like all children with such a background, I am very aware of the fact that it is possible that I may have never been born...
Women » Women's Narrative » Personal Stories » Dealing with Challenge » Picking Up the Pieces
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For the Sake of Tefillin
By Nissan Mindel
How tefillin saved a person's life again and again -- during the Holocaust and in its immediate aftermath.
Jewish Practice » Tefillin » Stories » For the Sake of Tefillin
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The Reunion
By Chana Lewis
My grandmother Sima and her brother Meir were young adults at the time of Hitler’s rise to power...
Women » Women's Narrative » Personal Stories » Life Lessons » The Reunion
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Haunted by Souls of the Past
By Aron Moss
I am a grandchild of Holocaust survivors but I feel haunted as if I went through it myself. I regularly see images of Auschwitz in dreams and flashes. I am sometimes even scared to tell people I am Jewish. Am I crazy?
Ideas & Beliefs » Questions & Answers » Life & Death » Haunted by Souls of the Past
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Remember Me Forever
By Sara Esther Crispe
On my desk sit the pictures and the invitation. The pictures are of a past generation that never really was, and the invitation represents the future generation that may never be...
Society & Living » Voices » Days of our Lives » Remember Me Forever
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Cuttings
By Shlomo Yaffe
Trees don't talk, but they have a great deal to say. And one of the most amazing things a tree says is about survival
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Shlomo Yaffe » Cuttings
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