Author Regina Grol is a professor of Polish and East European Studies. Here, she tells the story of her parents’ survival during the Holocaust, drawing on letters, historical documents, and interviews
The Jewish community of the Polish border town of Brzesc (Brisk in Yiddish), which had numbered almost 30,000 people, was wiped out during the Holocaust, with only about 10 of its members surviving. O
And Yet I Still Have Dreams is a departure from many Holocaust memoirs. Angry, pugnacious, contemptuous of the stereotypes found in some survivor literature, and honest about the shortcomings of its c
