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Let's Make Things Better
A Holocaust Survivor's Message of Hope and Celebration of Life
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May 30, 20211 min read
Book Excerpt: 1947
In 1947, Pan American airlines offered the first ever round-the-world ticket and bank robber Willie Sutton, when asked why he robbed...
May 30, 20211 min read
Moment Magazine!
I am very proud that an article I wrote for the new monthly "Beshert" column in Moment Magazine was accepted and published! Take a look!
May 30, 20212 min read
You Go, Girl!
Book excerpt from The True Adventures of Gidon Lev I am angry. At myself. At all of us. I know this is a very cheeky take on a very...
May 30, 20218 min read
Chapter 15: Anthropology
I have often wondered what a writer was reading themselves as they wrote a book, or what music they listened to. I wonder what the view...
May 30, 20211 min read
Fighting Windmills
This artwork was painted by Gidon's late father-in-law, Montie Kashman. Montie was a prolific painter and many family members have at...
May 30, 20211 min read
L'Shana Tova!
Happy New Year from Gidon and Julie! Thank you for following our adventures as we create this book. May your new year be full of...
May 30, 20211 min read
You Can Go Home Again
This is the address, on Italska 7, where Gidon, his mother, father and two grandparents lived for two years after having fled Karlovy...
May 30, 20212 min read
Questions & Answers
JULIE: You spent your most formative years living in a communal situation (Terezin) and then later joining up a youth group, and then...
May 30, 20211 min read
No Jews Allowed
Gidon sits in the same park where, in 1940, his grandfather Albert took him to play but that day, they were barred. A big sign said, in...
May 30, 20212 min read
Back to Prague
Somewhere here, under loamy leaves and mushrooms, lies the grave of my Loving Life Buddy's grandmother, Therese Löw. We couldn't find it,...
May 30, 20211 min read
Meeting Another Survivor, Yehuda Bacon
Gidon and I had the very good fortune to have been introduced to Yehuda Bacon earlier this month. On top of being one of the most...
May 30, 20211 min read
Photo Bombing My Loving Life Buddy
Driving back from a beautiful day at Kibbutz Mishmar Ha Emek.
May 30, 20211 min read
Busy Week!
My Loving Life Buddy and I had such a busy week, updating our website and working on the book proposal for Not Another Holocaust Story:...
May 30, 20211 min read
Look Out, World, Here We Come! Our First Interview for the Book Project!
"Gidon and I both feel is the climate today of racism, hate and ignorance. We were both stunned by the results of that CNN survey and h
May 30, 20211 min read
An Intense But Sweet, Meaningful Visit
In late 2018, as Gidon and I were hard at work on his book, we had a very special visitor. Hannah is from Germany and she came to Israel...
May 30, 20211 min read
Lithuanian Jews Close Only Synagogue Due to Threats
I saw this in the newspaper this morning and my heart dropped to my toes. “In this atmosphere of rising tension and incitement … neither...
May 30, 20217 min read
Discovery & Tears
...a picture of Gidon's father Ernst came crashing out of the past and into our possession when a friend on social media
managed to find
May 30, 20214 min read
Spelunking and the Weight of Words
Book excerpt: My hands smell of old leather and brass fittings and the decay of one hundred years. Gidon and I have just sat and looked...
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