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...
View ArticleWriting 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...
View ArticlePerformance 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...
View ArticlePerformance 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...
View ArticleEssie’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...
View ArticleHolocaust 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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