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Survival in Paradise: Curaçao

February 15, 2014 by Edie Jarolim 7 Comments

Last July, when I posted an excerpt from Manfred Wolf's memoir, Survival in Paradise, I was pleased -- though not at all surprised -- by the positive response it got. It's a very moving piece about a young boy's coming of age during World War II. So I am doubly pleased to have gotten permission to post another excerpt from the book, this one from Chapter 12, when the

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Survival in Paradise: Southern France

July 23, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 20 Comments

Get a cup of coffee or tea and settle in. I've got a great read for you today, courtesy of one of my talented relatives. I introduced Manfred Wolf briefly last week when he added information about his uncle Paul to an earlier post about the far-flung Kornmehl family. Today the spotlight is entirely on him, with an excerpt from an unpublished memoir tentatively called

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Geography Lessons: Wandering Jews

July 16, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 9 Comments

Did you know that, for a significant period of time (1795-1919), the country we now know as Poland ceased to exist, that it was divided up between Prussia, Russia, and Austria-Hungary? And did you know that, before 1795,  approximately half the world's population of Jews lived in the region that was thus divided up, some 750,000 out of 1.5 million? The Southern Arizona

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