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Mama’s Life Lessons

Posted on March 1, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Mama used to talk much about the slavery days. She’d paint us mental pictures of life working in the field and the horrors of cruel masters. The latter wa...

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Clara’s Kindness

Posted on February 21, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

My rescue came late into the evening, well after the sun had set and the stillness of night arose. It came in the figure of a thin white woman with long blond h...

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Pa’s Tears

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Pa has seen much in his years. His back shows the cruelty. While face wrinkles show toils and worries, the many hardships. And in his deep soulful eyes are all ...

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Eretz Israel, My Beloved

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

“Eretz Israel, my beloved,” papa often says. Usually, the remark comes as he’s gazing out at the endless countryside plains. You can see the l...

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Tommy, The Dodgers, and Civil Rights

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

People say the midlife years are hardest. When grey hair strands and deeper wrinkles shepherd in new feelings, and grief becomes all too consuming. Tommy couldn...

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Anna & Her Sister

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Anna Stein took her first breath on a makeshift bed in a crowded Warsaw Ghetto apartment in 1940. At the time, not even a year had passed since the Nazis took o...

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That day in Dachau

Posted on November 11, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“Fear festers,” pop told him all through childhood. “Step in, step through, but don’t be hindered by fear. Yet always respect it.”...

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A New Normal

Posted on November 10, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Daddy came back from the war a spiritually wounded man. His joyful eyes no longer sparkled. His big, booming voice also changed. Words came out slower and softe...

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A Warsaw Ghetto Deportation

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

She was in the line, the one you didn’t want to be in, the one leading to the deportation train going to Treblinka, a death camp. We all knew that’s...

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She is. A Union Army Soldier.

Posted on October 12, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“Why shouldn’t a woman fight in the war?” Eliza asked her sister. “Because you can’t, and so you mustn’t. And many are dying...

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