Zayvel, The Butcher
by Richard L. Baum
“I had no clear idea what these notebooks contained; some of the text appeared to be poetry. It was possible that I was looking at a personal diary, and I had some unease about intruding into my mother’s private thoughts. I put the notebooks aside …”
Uncovering My Latvian-Jewish Roots
by Shelly Sanders
“I waded through pages with photos of strangers, passport stamps, and Cyrillic text, able to pick out a few handwritten names. Schlomo, Ruven, Jossel. My great-uncle. For the first time, I saw his face and recognised my grandmother and her brother in his features.”
By Linda Ewall Krocker
“Years later I learned that my cousin Renee had her father’s correspondence from 1939-1945 from our Fiszelow and Steinberg family members who remained behind… postcards from a beautiful set of gilded Jewish New Year’s cards…until they apparently ran out.”
