Category Archives: Family

How she was able to do it I don’t know… wonderful mental dexterity I guess. Here it was, the memories of the murder of millions as fresh as your breakfast this morning, when your heritage and ancestry was put on … Continue reading →

It was November something or other, in 1888 or so that Sophie Chatzek (Jewish name… Shaina Clara) was born in a small town near Warsaw. She would later say it was “Warshava Guberniya”… which is like saying “metropolitan” Warsaw. In … Continue reading →

I remember… Looking out the window in the morning and watching snow fall accumulating at the base of trees and in the nooks of the shrubs in our gardens… I listened for the sound of the plows clearing the streets… … Continue reading →