When Sofie Mecklenberg married Jan Rijnfeld in Amsterdam in 1937 she knew she was becoming stepmother to six daughters. The oldest was 21 and about to be married herself, the youngest was 11. Sophie knew she would have to work hard to be their friend and a stand-in for their mother who had died five [...]
In The Pages In Between, Erin Einhorn has written a memoir about what she finds when she searches for the Polish family that sheltered her Jewish mother during World War II. When she was growing up in Detroit, Einhorn didn’t know much about her mother’s past until she wrote a paper on the topic when [...]
I just started reading Night by Elie Wiesel. It’s a book I’ve heard about for a long time, and my 16-year-old daughter read it in school two years ago, so I thought it was time I read it myself. I’ve read other of Wiesel’s boos. They’re not for the faint of heart, but they are [...]
