This is a powerful piece (click on the link below) by Naftali Bendavid that appeared in the Wall Street Journal last week. It is about the last survivors of the Holocaust telling their stories. According to the popular press there were only 100 child survivors of Theresienstadt. My mother was one of them. I don’t knowContinue reading “Why I’m Writing about the Holocaust – Part 2”
Category Archives: Writing
Why I Haven’t Written in Awhile
Sometimes family comes first. Actually, family always comes first. The last few weeks I have been focused on family. There is one member of our family, with significant health issues, and we have all been mobilized to help. This particular family member, who I will leave unnamed, has an addiction that is severe and lifeContinue reading “Why I Haven’t Written in Awhile”
Why I’m Writing about the Holocaust
Please watch this short video. It is short and speaks for itself. We are raising a generation of students who don’t know about the Holocaust. If they don’t know, it is because nobody taught them. If they don’t know, G-d help us all in the future. We all need to know what has happened toContinue reading “Why I’m Writing about the Holocaust”
Writing Tools
My daughter asked me to blog about my writing process. I have been thinking about that request at the same time that I have been stuck. It isn’t so much that I have writer’s block. It is more that I keep getting confused. I am having trouble keeping track of the dates and who-was-where-when andContinue reading “Writing Tools”
A Little Help From My Friends
My focus this summer has been on writing. I have been trying to churn out chapters, which means, I haven’t been doing all that much research. There haven’t been new discoveries or new collaborations with far off researchers for a while. As a result I feel a bit “blog blocked, ” to coin a newContinue reading “A Little Help From My Friends”
Connecting to Anne Frank
I was playing around on a genealogy website and I came across an interesting discovery: Anne Frank is my second great uncle’s uncle’s wife’s sister’s husband’s nephew’s wife’s first cousin once removed’s wife’s great-niece. Now, I wasn’t sure I believed this so I took out paper and pen and drew out the family connection. HereContinue reading “Connecting to Anne Frank”
Progress Report
Many people have asked me how long I will take to finish writing my book. I really don’t know. Some days the words flow, and other days I can’t come up with anything so I avoid the computer all together. Some chapters appear in one sitting and others need to be nurtured; word by word,Continue reading “Progress Report”
The Most Important Critic
Mom reading a draft of the book I’m visiting my parents this week and have a new reader — mom. When I pulled my current draft out of my bag and put it on the coffee table it was quickly scooped up. Mom dove in immediately and the editorial remarks have been coming in fast.Continue reading “The Most Important Critic”
Rhythms of Writing
During the school year there is a certain rhythm to my life. The day starts with getting my youngest and sometimes my bonus-son up and out the door for school. There is the 45 minute round trip in dropping them off and then getting home to a quiet house. Being a morning person I canContinue reading “Rhythms of Writing”
My 15 Minutes of Fame
Yesterday afternoon, while my husband and I were doing chores around the house, my mother in law called and left a message for “the famous Heidi Fishman.” It took me a minute to figure out what she was referring to, and then I realized the local paper had published the article about memoir writing thatContinue reading “My 15 Minutes of Fame”
K Heidi Fishman (Popje and Me) 