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"Where did you get all this hatred? We don't hate anyone."
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We had imagined making babies with ease, as if they were simply fruit- ripening on the trees around us- and all we had to do is stretch out our limbs and pluck. We never imagined that skill is involved, that heartbreak is required, and that the one simpl
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I will never reach my goal.
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My mother still told everyone she would never forgive him for stealing her only surviving sister to Tangiers.
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These were definitely the two worst ways to die.
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I felt as likely to die in childhood as so many family members before me.
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These were the sorts of dwellings Jews had lived in after their escape from Egypt
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“Well, if she dipped your doll in the toilet, we will just have to flush her down the toilet to teach her a lesson.“
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My grandmother and her children spent six weeks living in barns, then were taken for a three day nightmare ride in hot cattle cars to Auschwitz.
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I was two completely different students depending on the class.
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The first time I ever held a gun, I was three years old...
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“Is that what six million looks like?” I wondered. I easily grasped the six part. I'd lived that many years. The Star of David had six points. So did each snow crystal.
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“Your mother, so dark, the gypsy. Don’t love her. We’ll call her something like ‘Blackie.’
The French have a particular word for a union like ours, your mother’s and mine. It’s ‘mésalliance’, you will remember the word, won’t you, girlie? If you do, yo
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So then we had to worry about the Russian soldiers. When they heard we were Jewish, they said “How come the Germans didn’t kill all of you?”
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In overalls, earflaps and muddy work boots, my grandfather Zeidika blended with the Christian townspeople. But in his long black coat that tied like a bathrobe, the Hasid just arrived from Brooklyn at the rural New Jersey train sation stood out…
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