In 2002, after retiring from academia, I returned to the ghettos, killing fields and death camps of Eastern Europe. Throughout the trip my fears reemerged and I felt traumatized again. My memories became more focused on the past, especially, when I went to the former location of the Warsaw Ghetto where I and most of my family lived and then to Treblinka death camp where they perished. I said Kaddish for them and sang the song Treblinka .
On that European trip I made a pact with myself and with God that I would spend the rest of my life doing creative work to remember the Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Etched in My Memory: Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor, contains 35 reflections, spanning the years from prewar Warsaw, the ghettos and the ghetto slaughters, the death camps, the partisans, liberation, postwar refugee status, and to my life in America. 84 pages with 19 full color images.
On that European trip I made a pact with myself and with God that I would spend the rest of my life doing creative work to remember the Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Etched in My Memory: Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor, contains 35 reflections, spanning the years from prewar Warsaw, the ghettos and the ghetto slaughters, the death camps, the partisans, liberation, postwar refugee status, and to my life in America. 84 pages with 19 full color images.