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Writing About the Holocaust–A poem by 8th grader, Greg Wong

About a month ago, I visited students at Temple Sinai in Worcester, MA, where I read from Escaping Into the Night and also facilitated a brief writing workshop, inviting students to write their own...

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Writing About the Holocaust–Performance Piece by Victoria Ritter–Part I

Congratulations to La Plata High School freshman, Victoria Ritter, who won first place at the county level for National History Day in Maryland. Inspired in part, by Escaping Into the Night, Victoria...

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Performance Piece by Victoria Ritter–Part II

Here’s the second part of Victoria’s engaging performance piece: Sneaking Around With The Partisans   Mother and I knocked on the door of a man that we had heard might help us.  “Yes?” he asked.  He...

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Performance Piece by Victoria Ritter–Part III

Here is the final part of Victoria’s prize-winning Holocaust performance piece. People who have not read the previous sections, should start with part one, two posts behind this one. Comments are...

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Essie’s Story, Partisan and Teacher

All through the time I was writing Escaping Into the Night, I wondered if there was anyone out there who was part of the Bielski Partisans whom I could speak to. I made a few inquiries at the National...

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Holocaust Stories: The Compunction to Tell

Last Saturday I drove to the Bronx to meet Esia Shor, a survivor of the Bielski partisan group I wrote about in Escaping Into the Night, and her daughter, Lora. They greeted my husband, son, and me...

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