Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center.
The six Holocaust survivors serving as torchlighters for the annual Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony on April 7, 2021 lit memorial candles from rabbinical organization Tzohar, which is partnering with Yad Vashem in the Generations Light the Way project, encouraging people to gather together to light six memorial candles, a format created last year with the onset of COVID in order to have ceremonies at home to mark Yom Hashoa (Courtesy Dena Wimpfheimer)
The six Holocaust survivors slowly made their way in wheelchairs, or lean on canes or on their children’s or grandchildren’s arms, toward the six torches set up for the official Yad Vashem ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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6 Tips for Confidently Writing Historical Fiction
Author Jaclyn Goldis shares her six tips for writing historical fiction, whether its about Regency England or a Jewish community on a Greek island that fell under Nazi occupation.
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Feb 15, 2021
Crafting historical fiction begins long before typing the first word. When I set out to write my now debut novel, I had a kernel of a character: An old Jewish woman who confronts her painful, buried past as a teenager during the Nazi occupation of the Greek Ionian islands.
I zeroed in on Corfu and the tragic, little-known story of its small Jewish community who fell into Nazi hands. But I immediately apprehended what might be an obstacle to my research: 2,000 Jews lived on Corfu before the war, and 1,800 of them were murdered in Auschwitz. The Jewish community on Corfu presently numbers around 20, most of whom are elderly.
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