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Why do I tell Holocaust stories? For a long time, I could not say. I could talk about how these stories resonated with me, but I could not explain why. I could talk about the need to preserve this history and to learn from it, but not why I felt the need to tell these...

My aging mother began to need more help just as I was retiring from 32 years of pediatric practice. There are some transferable skills between pediatrics and geriatrics, and I applied them to the care of my mother. Taking care of her, I began to realize that not only...

Why do I tell Holocaust stories? For a long time, I could not say. I could talk about how these stories resonated with me, but I could not explain why. I could talk about the need to preserve this history and to learn from it, but not why I felt the need to tell these...

My aging mother began to need more help just as I was retiring from 32 years of pediatric practice. There are some transferable skills between pediatrics and geriatrics, and I applied them to the care of my mother. Taking care of her, I began to realize that not only...

The date was April 27, 2014. The place, Beth Israel Synagogue in Salisbury, MD, the synagogue that our family had belonged to since moving to Salisbury in 1950, the year before I was born. The event was the annual Yom HaShoah program, which my father, who survived the...

I’ve been telling other people’s stories in writing for more than 40 years. Telling my own in person… I wasn’t sure about that at all. “You can write it and read it,” I told myself, having already signed up for Teach the Shoah’s class. That was before I realised what...

On a trip to visit my father and stepmother in 1976, I brought a cassette recorder and half a dozen blank cassettes with the intention of interviewing Dad. The first evening after dinner I brought it down to where Dad was sitting, reading the Yiddish edition of...