My parents taught me not to expect much from the world.
My parents taught me to expect everything from the world.
My parents always said: Even the best friends we had betrayed us.
My parents always said: Our best friends shared their bread with us.
Before the war there were nine million.
Only 75,000 outlived
The Nazi concentration camps.
Two were my parents.
My parents taught me I am special.
My parents taught me I am like others.
My parents always said: Neither of you was supposed to be born.
My parents always said: You are my life.
Hundreds of people live through me.
Lives cut short by war.
My grandmother whose name I share
Lives through me.
My parents taught me to be proud.
My parents taught me to be humble.
My parents always said: We live in a free country.
My parents always said: The night screams were nothing.
I know I carry slippery things
More dangerous than a shadow inside me.
I hear voices I have never met.
I am a child of the Holocaust.
June, 1992