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The sign above the gate read “Arbeit Mach Frei.” It was May 12, 2011 and I found myself literally staring at the gates of hell. The entrance to the most notorious of all the Nazi Death Camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau.  Being here … Continue reading →

                       ON THE EIGHTY-FITH ANNIVERSARY OF KRYSTALLNACHT,                                                     NOVEMBER 9 AND 10, 1938 I don’t intend to make this a big deal literary effort or a weepy emotional debauch.  I simply want to tell you what I remember about Krystallnacht. … Continue reading →

Well the first days are the hardest days, don’t you worry any more‘Cause when life looks like easy street, there is danger at your doorThink this through with me, let me know your mindWoah-oh, what I want to know, is … Continue reading →

Introduction Hawaii smells as heaven should. Perhaps it felt that way as for the last fifteen hours or so I had been on airplane wearing KN95 mask and after smelling your own breath for that long anything would smell heavenly. … Continue reading →

Today is the 84th Anniversary of Kristalnacht. We swore to never forget yet in recent days not only in the USA but around the world we seemed not to recall that lack of vigilance will make history repeat itself. . … Continue reading →

I am a conservative. By definition that means a person who supports an emphasis on traditions and relies on the individual to maintain society. A conservative is someone who supports a woman’s right to choose what to do with their … Continue reading →

It is 11:45 and we are in hotel room in Baden. It is an unremarkable room in that it resembles most mid priced hotel rooms in Europe: It has very simple modern wood furniture, two twin beds that are placed … Continue reading →

Five years previously, I was in my car driving my mother to a radiation treatment for her lung cancer when my phone rang. As you can imagine the mood in my car was less than light. I guess some people … Continue reading →

Chapter 1: “The green flash should happen at any moment.” The speaker of that line was my best friend, if people still use that phrase,  for the past 45 years, Conor Sean Kennedy. We were on the deck of his … Continue reading →