Keren Blankfeld
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Indulging in Tuscany, And How Bee Stings Lead to An Epiphany.
Posted on October 30, 2013 Leave a Comment
After touring emotional sites in Eastern Europe — memorial-hopping, if you will, for murdered family members — and then celebrating my birthday surrounded by family and friends in Israel, I thought Tuscany would be a good final stop before returning home to New York. In Tuscany I don’t know anyone. Here, alone, I can collect […]
In Riga Reality Hits. Hard.
Posted on September 24, 2013 Leave a Comment
The night we arrive in Riga is dark and rainy. The following day’s weather follows suit. It’s fitting for the mood of the day. We visit the Riga ghetto where my great-grandparents and great-aunts were taken before being murdered. It’s eerie: the houses down the streets are now just as they were then. Outside one house […]
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