We only have their names left…
I didn’t see my grandparents. No one of them. Neither on my mother’s, nor on my father’s side. None of them took me on their laps, kissed me, ...
One hundred years after. The life goes on, daddy…
Time is what makes us look back, go deeper into the details of the past, peering under a microscope or, conversely, trying to see it through binoculars. How oft...
My great-grandfather, Wolf Zeltser
In fact, my great-grandfather’s name was Velvl Zeltser. He was born in 1885 in the settlement of Vadul Rashkov, was orphaned early and was hired to graze goats ...
Sandcastle of my heart
Exactly 40 years ago, in March 1981, a person who loved me more than anybody else in my life much as no one else died. It was my mother, Yasna Fishbein. Sometim...
Holocaust in the village of Bulaesti in Bessarabia
Camps, ghettos, killing of millions of Jews in Europe during the World War II. That is the Holocaust of the European Jewry consisted of genocide and exterminati...
Grandpa
It was one of his favorite stories. My grandfather often recalled it and while telling, he could never refrain from crying. It was in Breslau, now Wroclaw, just...
What archives are telling us about
I’m traveling through the family archives. Turning the pages, watching the yellow pictures… I’ve suddenly realized, that those are not just days and years...
Obelisk in the field
On July 7, 1941, the entire Jewish population of the Berlintsy village was shot at the edge of the field, the Jewish houses were robbed. From the conclusion of ...
Chisinau ghetto. Help from Bucharest.
Leaders of the local Jewish community did everything possible to inform their brothers in Bucharest about the situation in the ghetto, and coming deportations. ...
Chisinau Ghetto. Deportations
From the very beginning, the ghetto was considered a temporary refuge for the Jews. The aim of the Romanian authorities was to “cleanse” Bessarabia ...