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Oct 15, 20236 min read
An American Holocaust Survivor’s Child’s Perspective on the October 7, 2023 Hamas Surprise Attack on Civilian Israelis
So much has been said since the October 7, 2023, surprise attack by the terrorist group, Hamas, on civilian Israelis. As a child of...
Jan 22, 20224 min read
A Holocaust Survivor’s Child Shares National Council of Jewish Women’s Response to Events at The Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Principles of Active Shooter Training to Incorporate in Daily Life,
As a child of Holocaust survivors, I was not only horrified, I was and am terrified by the January 15, 2022 terrorist attack on the...
Nov 14, 20214 min read
A New Baby Has Been Born Into Our Holocaust Family
Yesterday, a new baby was born into our Holocaust family. A new baby in the family is a momentous event but to a Holocaust family, the...
Sep 26, 20214 min read
I AM A REFUGEE. I LOVE AMERICA
One Sunday morning, I was watching news reels of Afghan refugees carrying babies. It hit home to me, as I was a baby brought to America...
Nov 25, 202014 min read
Our Holocaust Family History, Part II. My Mother, Holocaust Survivor
My mother, born Feiga (“little bird” or Zipora in Hebrew) Jelen, for whom our granddaughter is named), rarely spoke of the Holocaust....
Nov 19, 202010 min read
Our Holocaust Family History, Part I. My Father, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Treblinka Concentration Camp Uprising
Our granddaughter, in eighth grade, is studying the Holocaust. We took her to Israel for her Bat Mitzvah where our Yad Vashem Museum...
Nov 12, 20208 min read
We Americans Who Are All Immigrants to Our Country Created the Fabric Of Our Society, Wear or Carry or Wave the Red, White, and Blue, So How Can we Show Our Loyalty To America?
The presidential election vote is in and shows that we are clearly divided as a nation. President-Elect Biden’s priority is for our...
Oct 21, 20207 min read
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and This Florida Judge’s Immigrant Life Following Her A Decade Later. Para
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant among us and her loss has been felt nationwide. The following two quotes I...
May 13, 20205 min read
A Child of Holocaust Survivors View of Surviving the Coronavirus, Covid-19
For the very first time in over seven decades, I decided that I would participate in an on line video group of second generation...
Mar 25, 20204 min read
From A Child of Holocaust Survivors Who Never Knew Grandparents: In 2020, We May Have to Picture Our
Until this date, March 24, 2020, the coronavirus outbreak, dangerous to us Boomers, has meant PopPop and I had to self quarantine, and we...
Jan 8, 20205 min read
Becoming the Matriarch of a Holocaust Survivor Family in 2020, Seventy Five Years after the Holocaus
It is not without irony that 2020 is ushered in with the death of the last living Holocaust survivor from our family. My Mother, GG...
May 8, 20196 min read
As a Child of Holocaust Survivors, I Have Experienced My Parents’ Extreme Trauma and Severe Shock
When you are a child of Holocaust survivors, when Holocaust Remembrance Day comes around again, you can remember vividly the year before...
Mar 15, 20195 min read
It Does Not Take Very Much to Trigger Holocaust Memories When You Are A Child of Holocaust Survivors
The day was the ordinary. I ran errands. I went to Whole Foods for a dozen items that came to $44. I took my car in for service and went...
Aug 15, 20186 min read
As A Child of Holocaust Survivors, I Am Worried That History Is Repeating Itself
4 February 2017, West Point Cadets tour the Permanent Exhibition. As a child of Holocaust survivors, I feel that my unique background and...
Apr 8, 20189 min read
Preserving Family History Leads To Much Less than Six Degrees of Separation with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Future Connecting With the Significant Past
“Six Degrees of Separation” a play and movie of our Boomer generation, written by American playwright John Guare, opened on Broadway in...
Oct 29, 20168 min read
Yiddish Words That Will Serve You well In Life and ToTranscend Generations From the Past to the Future
This Grandma, born in a displaced person’s camp in Germany, knew the power of the Yiddish language from the phrases my parents used and...
Aug 15, 20154 min read
How Young is Young Enough to Be President of the United States
News Flash on July 30, 2015 from CNN.com: “Health issues resulting from a blood clot in 2012 are resolved and Hillary Clinton is...
Aug 7, 20152 min read
And So We Boomers Disappear at the End of This Century…
The article in the Washington Post June 26, 2015 caught my eye, “Social Issues: Census update shows more diverse society as baby-boom...
Feb 8, 20153 min read
Does Jane the Virgin’s Lead Actress Have an Important message for Parents and Grandparents to Pass Along That Is Not What the Show’s Title Suggests
Because of all the buzz that the new television show,”Jane the Virgin,” was not only hysterical but bound to win awards this year, this...
Dec 12, 20132 min read
“Back to Brooklyn” with Barbra Streisand
The opening song Barbra Streisand sang in her television special, “Back to Brooklyn” reminded me that my first home in America was in...
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