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| | Voices From Exile Archive |
 | | This is the (short) story of a post-Holocaust Jewish family pilgrimage to Mayen, a small town in Germany from which my father and his entire family emigrated in the 1930's to escape the mortal threat posed to them by Hitler's murderous regime. |
| | As we planned our trip, a powerful and redemptive image occurred to me: I saw that our coming to Mayen, as the third and fourth generations after Albert and Ida, would be like flowers breaking forth through the earth and blossoming, in a field that had been nothing but ashes. |
| | In the central section of the service, my Israeli cousin spoke movingly and powerfully in Hebrew, letting this ancient language of the Jews ring out through the hall, as she courageously expressed her deeply ambivalent feelings on returning to Mayen, the town that had persecuted her mother and her grandparents. |
| tigger.uic.edu /~libraes/naomi_0399.htm (1739 words) |
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