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Our Granddaughter’s Twinning at Yad Vashem’s Special Bar and Bat Mitzvah Tour And You Can Do it For Your Teen Too, In Your Home Town, Without Going to Jerusalem, Israel
Holocaust Education is mandated in many states and children all over the United States are taught the horrors of targeting people just...
Sep 4, 20194 min read
What this Grandma, Meghan Markle and Peppa Pig Have In Common Seems to Be the Big News Currently and
When I immigrated to the United States with my parents, I was six months old. Although my mother (GG Frieda) insisted that I was toilet...
May 29, 20195 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...
May 8, 20196 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...
Mar 15, 20195 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...
Aug 15, 20186 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...
Apr 8, 20189 min read
Our Choice of Bread Defines Where We have Come From, Who We Are, and Sometimes Who We Aspire To Be
Our eleven year old granddaughter, visiting for spring break, asked for a sandwich. Ever the doting grandmother, I had purchased three...
Mar 27, 20184 min read
2018 New Year’s Resolutions Focusing on Feelings That Span A Lifetime Will Bring Us Joy
For New Years 2017, this Grandma wrote “2017 New Year’s Resolutions Focusing on Feelings That Span A Lifetime Will Bring Us Joy.” When I...
Jan 5, 20189 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...
Oct 29, 20168 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 15, 20154 min read
Learning More to Share With the Great-Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors and Being More Concerned About the World in Which We Live
It is so difficult for this Grandma to watch the evening news. The world in which we live is a scary place and when the world becomes...
Apr 18, 20154 min read
When Should Grandchildren Learn About the Holocaust
A dear long (we never say old) friend, also a grandma, said her grandson, age six, overheard her discussing a Holocaust movie with his...
Mar 31, 20156 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...
Feb 8, 20153 min read
This Grandma Feels A Need to Apologize to the Grandchildren for the World in Which We Now Live
I do not think I know how the world in which we live got to be what it is today. MY PRECIOUS GRANDCHILDREN, THE WORLD IS A SCARY PLACE,...
Jan 15, 20155 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...
Dec 12, 20132 min read
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