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Rethinking Holocaust Families PRISM •AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATORS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATORS • A ROTHMAN FOUNDATION PUBLICATION AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATORS EDITORS: DR. KAREN SHAWN, Yeshiva University, New York, NY DR. JEFFREY GLANZ, Yeshiva University, New York, NY EDITORIAL BOARD: DR. ADEN BAR-TURA, Bar-Ilan University, Israel YESHIVA UNIVERSITY • AZRIELI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND ADMINISTRATION DARRYLE CLOTT, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI DR. KEREN GOLDFRAD, Bar-Ilan University, Israel BRANA GUREWITSCH, Museum of Jewish Heritage– A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY DR. DENNIS KLEIN, Kean University, Union, NJ DR. MARCIA SACHS LITTELL, School of Graduate Studies, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona SPRING 2011 CARSON PHILLIPS, York University, Toronto, Canada VOLUME 3 DR. ROBERT ROZETT, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel ISSN 1949-2707 DR. DAVID SCHNALL, Yeshiva University, New York, NY DR. WILLIAM SHULMAN, President, Association of Holocaust Organizations, New York, NY DR. SAMUEL TOTTEN, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville DR. WILLIAM YOUNGLOVE, California State University, Long Beach ART EDITOR: DR. PNINA ROSENBERG, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa POETRY EDITOR: DR. CHARLES ADÈS FISHMAN, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, State University of New York ADVISORY BOARD: STEPHEN FEINBERG, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC DR. LEO GOLDBERGER, Professor Emeritus, New York University, NY DR. YAACOV LOZOWICK, Historian, Jerusalem, Israel YITZCHAK MAIS, Historian, Museum Consultant, Jerusalem, Israel RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG, Congregation Beth-El, Edison, NJ MARK SARNA, Second Generation, Real Estate Developer, Attorney, Englewood, NJ DR. DAVID SILBERKLANG, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel SIMCHA STEIN, Historian, Upper Galilee, Israel DR. EFRAIM ZUROFF, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jerusalem, Israel AZRIELI GRADUATE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT EDITORS: DR. SHANI BECHHOFER DR. CHAIM FEUERMAN DR. SCOTT GOLDBERG DR. MOSHE KRAKOWSKI DR. RONA MILCH NOVICK SPRING •VOLUME 2011 3 DR. DAVID PELCOVITZ DR. MOSHE SOKOLOW ART DIRECTOR: BORIS VOLUNUEV, Yeshiva University, New York, NY RESEARCH ASSISTANT: EMILY AMIE WITTY, Yeshiva University, New York, NY PROJECT MANAGER: STEVEN SCHLOSS, Yeshiva University, New York, NY COPY EDITOR: RACHEL WITTY, Brooklyn, NY In memory of Henry I. Rothman A^; and Bertha G. Rothman 9^G ]9 <AC C<A “who lived and fought for Torah-true Judaism” Published through the courtesy of the HENRY, BERTHA and EDWARD ROTHMAN FOUNDATION Rochester, N.Y. • Circleville, Ohio • Cleveland, Ohio Call for Manuscripts AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATORS PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators is a publication of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University. It is made possible by a generous grant from the Henry, Bertha, and Edward Rothman Foundation. At present, single issues are complimentary. Multiple copies for classroom use are available at $10 per copy. Contact Emily Amie Witty at [email protected] to purchase copies. EDUCATORS, HISTORIANS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, THEOLOGIANS, ARTISTS, WRITERS, POETS, AND OTHER INTERESTED AUTHORS ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT MANUSCRIPTS ON THE FOLLOWING THEMES: The Holocaust and Heroism—In press The Kindertransport—Submissions due May 1, 2012 Open Issue, Unthemed—Submissions due May 1, 2013 KEEP IN MIND: • All submissions must be sent as e-mailed attachments in Microsoft Word, using Times New Roman 12 font type. • All text should be double spaced, justifi ed, and paginated. • Submissions accompanied by documentary photos and artwork are given special consideration. • Photos and artwork must be attached as separate JPEG or TIF fi les and accompanied by permissions. • The American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual (6th Ed.) is Yeshiva University's required reference guide for publications. • Length of manuscript may vary; we seek essays from 4 to 14 double-spaced pages. CONTACT THE EDITORS WITH QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS, AND/OR QUERIES ABOUT SPECIFIC THEMES FOR FUTURE JOURNALS: Dr. Karen Shawn at [email protected] and Dr. Jeffrey Glanz at [email protected] or c/o Yeshiva University, Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, 500 West 185th Street, Belfer Hall, Room 326, New York, NY 10033 PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators is a peer-reviewed journal. Publication depends on the following factors: sound scholarship; originality; clear, concise, and engaging writing; relevance to theme; value and interest to audience of educators; and adherence to style guidelines. Letters to the editors are welcomed. The content of PRISM refl ects the opinions of the authors and not necessarily those of the Azrieli Graduate School and Yeshiva University. II PRISM: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATORS Contents 3 Introduction 56 How You Saved My Life (poetry) 105 Around the Table of Questions KAREN SHAWN AND JEFFREY GLANZ HELEN DEGEN COHEN (poetry) MARJORIE AGOSÍN 6 Prosciowiece, 1942 (poetry) 57 Zalman (poetry) RACHEL GOLDSTEIN SEYMOUR MAYNE 108 The Writer (poetry) CHARLES ADÈS FISHMAN 7 The Road of No Return 58 The Mothertree (poetry) (short story) STANLEY H. BARKAN 109 Rethinking Holocaust Families RACHEL HARING KORN (psychology) 59 Using Archival Documents, MARINA STOLERMAN, 12 At the Crossroads: Between Memoir, and Testimony to PENINA DORFMAN, AND Der Letster Veg and the Road of Teach About Jewish Families LOUISE BORDEAUX SILVERSTEIN No Return (literary analysis) During and After the Holocaust KEREN GOLDFRAD AND (pedagogy) 115 Braid (poetry) CHANI LEVENE-NACHSHON CARSON PHILLIPS From Auschwitz (poetry) Open (poetry) 18 The Children (poetry) 65 A Passover Refl ection: PESSIE (SHERRY) HOROWITZ MYRA SKLAREW The Fourth Son (art) HERB STERN 119 Auguststrasse 25, An Experiential 19 Somewhere in Poland... Memorial: Teaching About 66 Jewish Survivor Families: Survivor’s Lament (poetry) Jewish Family Life in Pre- The Dynamics of HEIDEMARIE PILC Holocaust Germany (pedagogy) Adaptation (psychology) CARSON PHILLIPS 20 Familial Resistance in the Łódz´ EVA FOGELMAN Ghetto (historical research) 123 Appraising the Roles of Rescuers’ 71 My Mother’s Tongue Is Not My RACHEL ISKOV Families: A Sensitive Issue for Mother Tongue (poetry) Yad Vashem’s Commission for 27 Life in the Shadows GIORA LESHEM (personal narrative) the Righteous (sociology) MIRIAM MIASNIK BRYSK 72 At Dachau (poetry) MORDECAI PALDIEL JUDITH CHALMER 29 A Contemporary Artist Presents 129 A Literary Search for Truth: the Family: Josh Freedman’s 74 Lingering Wounds: Daughters Teaching the Holocaust Mother, Father, Child (art) of Survivors Confront Secrecy Memoir to the Generations After the Holocaust (pedagogy) PNINA ROSENBERG and Silence (psychology) NANCY D. KERSELL NANCY D. KERSELL 31 Jewish Family Life in the Lipiczany Forest 78 The Dress (poetry) 133 I Wake From A Dream of (personal narrative) SARAH TRAISTER MOSKOVITZ Killing Hitler (poetry) MIRIAM MIASNIK BRYSK MARK NEPO 80 How She Learned (poetry) 37 Last Photo: February 23, 1942 MARGE PIERCY 135 “Of All Those Acts”: Learning (poetry) Sephardi Great- From and Teaching the Third Grandfather (poetry) 81 Verboten (poetry) Generation (pedagogy) JOHN AMEN SEYMOUR MAYNE ALISON DOBRICK 39 The Lives of Jewish Families in 82 Tattoo (poetry) 141 The Village (poetry) Flight From the Nazi Roundup: GREGG SHAPIRO KENNETH SHERMAN Denmark, October 1943 83 Family Album: Re-Collection: 142 An Expanded Legacy: Educational (personal narrative) The Paintings of Daniela Challenges of the Holocaust for LEO GOLDBERGER Rosenhouse (art) the Next Generation of Jewish 45 Love in a Death Camp (poetry) PNINA ROSENBERG Students (pedagogy) JOSHUA LEVY ISRAEL I. HALPERN 90 The Pripet Marshes (poetry) 46 From Bashert: Poland, 1944: IRVING FELDMAN 147 The Archivist (poetry) JUDITH CHALMER My mother is walking down a 93 Leaving Zborov road (poetry) (personal narrative) 148 About the Contributors IRENA KLEPFISZ LILA M. KORN 48 Struggling to Survive: Jewish 102 Daughter of Survivors (poetry) Families in the Holocaust (history) HILARY THAM BRANA GUREWITSCH 103 Home Is Home (poetry) Tell Me, Josef (poetry) JANET R. KIRCHHEIMER SPRING 2011 • VOLUME 3 1 Copyrights & Permissions Marjorie Agosín: “Around the Table of Oriana Ivy: “Grandmother’s Laughter” fi rst Kenneth Sherman: “The Village,” from Open Questions” © 2010 by Marjorie Agosín. appeared in Psychological Perspectives. to Currents (Wolsak and Wynn, Toronto), Used by permission of the author. Used by permission of the author. © 1992. Used by permission of the author. Karen Alkalay-Gut: Translator, “My Mother’s Janet R. Kirchheimer: “Tell Me, Josef” Myra Sklarew: “The Children,” from Tongue Is Not My Mother Tongue” by Giora © 2007 by Janet R. Kirchheimer. First Harmless (Mayapple Press), © 2010 by Leshem. First appeared in Midstream, appeared in How to Spot One of Us (Clal— Myra Sklarew. Used by permission of the Spring 1988. Used by permission of Karen The National Jewish Center for Learning author and Mayapple Press. Alkalay-Gut. and Leadership). Used by permission of the author. “Home is Home” © 2010 by Janet Hilary Tham: “Daughter of Survivors,” John Amen: “Verboten,” from More of Me R. Kirchheimer. First appeared in Podium from Bad Names for Women (Word Works), Disappears, © 2005. Used by permission Literary Journal, Issue 8. Used by permission © 1989. Used by permission of Ilana of the author and Cross-Cultural of the author. Goldberg. Communications. Irena Klepfi
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