Beyond my windows is a forest, much like the one my family and I escaped to in 1942. We escaped from the ghetto in the small town of Zhetel before it was liquidated and all of the remaining Jews, except for a few, were murdered. My family and other families set up camps in the …
From Slave to Bishop
Who was Richard Allen? He was America’s first black bishop. He was born to parents who were slaves. Soon after the family was sold to a Delaware farmer. Richard faced racism, cruelty and inequality. He wasn’t educated and anything he wanted to undertake he needed his master’s permission. His master, in order to pay his …
The Poet
I’m Avraham Sutzkever, a Yiddish poet. In 1939, I married Freydke. After the Germans invaded in 1941, we were herded like cattle into the Vilna ghetto. I was a member of the sorting team. We risked our lives to smuggle out and hide manuscripts looted by the Nazis who murdered my mother and my newborn …
By the River
They knew each other since they were children. Her mother, a pregnant, escaped slave somehow found her way to his people. His parents took care of her and when she died, they raised her daughter. He was four when she was born. He loved her from the moment he saw her. He was very protective …
A Model Moment
She stood there watching as the evening unfurled, a solitary figure in a room filled with people from the fashion and business world. She was there by invitation from her friend, a fashion photographer. She felt so out of place. She wasn't used to be around such glamorous people. Several people thought she was a model. …
The Intruder
A storm was raging outside. The rain was beating relentlessly against the windows. The lightning flashed across the sky and soon followed by the loud thunderous clap. She hated storms. And being alone in the house didn't help the situation. She chided herself for coming ahead of the family to this place which been closed …
Notes to Women 