A Simple Family Heirloom Unlocked a Dark Family Secret (Featured in various Hearst Publications)

When my daughter was born, my mother gave me a comb that my grandmother Ella (born Esther) had given her. That comb, it turned out, had great history attached to it. My mother first found the comb in my grandmother’s jewelry box Continue reading A Simple Family Heirloom Unlocked a Dark Family Secret (Featured in various Hearst Publications)

I Am the Granddaughter of Survivors (Featured in The Jewish Chronicle)

Every year on Yom HaShoah I am haunted by my family’s history, reading countless testimonials about the Holocaust, yet I am silent about my own. I always believed that it was not my story to tell.  But it is my Continue reading I Am the Granddaughter of Survivors (Featured in The Jewish Chronicle)