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Uri Shulevitz, author of Chance: Escape From the Holocaust, and cover art. (Photo of Shulevitz courtesy of Paula Brown/ book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Serendipity played no small part in helping Uri Shulevitz survive the Holocaust as a child. Nearly 76 years later, Shulevitz now an acclaimed author and illustrator of children’s books is contemplating the role that fate played in preserving his life in his new memoir for kids, “Chance: Escape From the Holocaust.”
In a phone interview with The Times of Israel, Shulevitz said that the title which was suggested by his wife, Paula Brown “reflects very much what was going on, because, to put it a certain way, fate was playing Russian roulette with our lives.”
Susan Faust April 7, 2021
The annual Holocaust Remembrance Day takes on added importance this year when Thursday, April 8, is set aside to recall and renounce genocide.
Some folks at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol did not get the “Never Again” memo. One guy sported a “Camp Auschwitz” T-shirt inside the building (he was arrested a week later in Virginia), while a woman gave a “Sieg Heil” salute outside.
These scenes are shocking. They place anti-Semitism and Aryan supremacy squarely in the present, not just the past. They also connect streams of prejudice, as also-present Confederate flags made abundantly clear that day.
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