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Deuteronomy 30:19 proclaims “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” My father has often quoted […]

Plung is not an exceedingly common surname. In fact, other than my family, I know of only one other Plung individual, and I assume that, somewhere along the line, there […]

Words are generally my most steadfast friends and come to me in even the most difficult and unimaginable of situations, but after Majdanek, though I feel so much, I find […]

There is a very specific–almost forgotten–piece of the Warsaw Ghetto wall that stands in a miniature park in Warsaw that the Soviets plastered over. Now, however, that plate has begun […]

Treblinka used to be a Nazi extermination camp–to borrow Avi’s words, a factory of death. Now, nothing of the original structures remains. Instead, there exists in the place that was […]

Every time I travel I have the odd sensation of feeling like a stranger in a strange new place–especially when I don’t know the language. There is always a lurking […]