To anyone else passing by, I was a strange white girl staring up at a random house. But for me, this meant that my journey was complete (at least for the moment). This was the place where Hana began the next chapter in life, the one which brought my mother as well as two other children into this world. Just a generation later, Hana’s strength resulted in seven joyous grandchildren around her dining room table...
Unfamiliar America
It is another world over here – a world where I know the language and am comfortable with the currency, a world where the recent federal court ruling regarding gay marriage is celebrated with incredible enthusiasm, and the hurt of the horrible June 17th shooting in Charleston stings the soul. I am back in America...
Daydreaming of Unknown Memories
Sometimes I daydream about what it would be like if I lived in the 1960s. I am wearing a long, flowing skirt, one that grazes my ankles and occasionally tickles my toes as I walk barefoot through the grass. It is an olive green color as I have always been drawn to the dark, tranquil hue. A loose fitting cotton white shirt, embroidered with a faint floral design, hangs loosely against my upper body. Naturally, there is a crown of dandelions that regularly falls off of my long, brown hair. It is early May and I am surrounded by friends, one who is most likely strumming away at the guitar. I am part of the peace movement, regularly advocating for the end of the war and free flowing love...
Stepping Stones in My Life
Follow My Footprints - The Project
Follow My Footprints is a long-term project that documents the cultural landscape of my grandmother’s displacement as a result of the Holocaust. In 1939, at the age of 14, Hana Dubova left Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for Denmark, whom in collaboration with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, had agreed to take in a group of 150 Czech Jewish teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16. She would be the only person in her family who would survive the war with the exception of some distant relatives...