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A woman sits near the entrance of a shelter against rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on May 17 in Ashdod, Israel.
My mother, a survivor of Auschwitz and the Death March, always thought Israel’s position on Palestine was a greater threat to the peace and security of Israelis than the Palestinians ever could be. I agree.
OPINION: A few years ago I was writing a review for
The Spinoff of Diana Wichtel’s award-winning book
when, out of the blue, I received two emails from Israel.
The first was from a student engaged in Holocaust studies who had come across a book of interviews with children resident in a particular orphanage in Chorzow, Poland. It was compiled by a clinical psychologist in 1947, but published only recently, and only in Hebrew. One of those testimonies was from my mother.