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Tag: Family History

0 Holocaust History

In a Masterful New Book, an Author Looks to Holocaust Memorials for Clues to His Family’s Fate

Liel Leibovitz in Tablet · 13 Jul 2017

"Hell's Traces" by Victor Ripp delves into Holocaust memorials as clues to his family's fate during WWII, navigating the challenge of confronting indescribable experiences.

0 Holocaust Education

The Holocaust History My Family Never Learned

Rachel Sharansky Danziger in Tablet · 6 Jan 2017

A Jewish woman reflects on her family's hidden Holocaust history, detailing how her grandfather, Simon Stieglitz, kept their Jewish roots secret, even from his own children.

0 Holocaust Communities

When ‘Never Forget’ Becomes ‘I Don’t Remember’

Leonard Felson in Tablet · 17 Jun 2016

Leonard Felson reflects on his father's journey as a Holocaust survivor facing the challenges of progressive dementia.

0 Holocaust History

Israeli Historian Otto Dov Kulka Tells Auschwitz Story of a Czech Family That Never Existed

Anna Hájková in Tablet · 30 Oct 2014

Israeli historian Otto Dov Kulka's book "Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death," based on his experience as a child in Auschwitz, is praised for its poetic and reflective tone.

0 History Communities

400 Years After Portugal’s Inquisition, a Very Unusual Family Comes Together

Forward · 1 Jun 2014

Descendants of four Portuguese Jewish brothers who fled the Inquisition in Portugal in 1614 gathered in Amsterdam to commemorate their heritage, although many present were not practicing Jews.

0 History Holidays

Our Family’s Twin Passover Tales: Escaping From Egypt and the Soviet Union

Rivy Poupko Kletenik in Tablet · 14 Apr 2014

The author reflects on the two Passover tales told in their home: the traditional Exodus from Egypt and their family's personal story of escape from Velizh, a town in Stalin's Soviet Union.

0 Holocaust

How Christmas Helped Me Discover—and Eventually Reclaim—My Jewish Roots

Alison Pick in Tablet · 23 Dec 2013

This piece tells the story of how the author, born into a Christian family, discovered and eventually reclaimed their Jewish roots.

0 History Communities

Sh*t My Dad Wrote

Justin Halpern in Tablet · 28 May 2013

Sam Halpern, father of Justin Halpern, has written a novel, "A Far Piece to Canaan," published by HarperCollins, which reflects his childhood on a Jewish sharecropping farm in Kentucky in the 1940s.

0 History Communities

My Man in Havana

Miriam B. Abrahams in Tablet · 1 Feb 2013

The author reflects on the complex relationship with their uncle in Havana, a communist who stayed behind in Cuba after their family fled in 1962.

0 Literature History

Imaginary Homeland

Etgar Keret in Tablet · 28 Oct 2011

Etgar Keret shares his journey of imagining and visiting his mother's homeland of Poland, where she grew up in Warsaw and survived the Holocaust.