The Holocaust

You can have a great influence

Helga Weissova-Hoskova Terezin survivor, Painter Jewish Museum Prague 18 January 2000 I have been invited to tell you about what I lived through when I was a child. Usually I speak to children. So I am a bit at a loss when I see so many adults. But I see many young people here, and so I […]

Black eyes, why do you cry?

Author: Jan HorvathLocation: Stories Exchange Project Workshop #4EastWest InstitutePragueAt the third international poetry festival in Lanciano, Italy I competed with other Romanies in Europe and ranked third. I had submitted a poem which I wrote after visiting Auschwitz. I had many impressions from this visit, and I worked them into a poem about how Romanies […]

I wanted them to suffer as little as possible

John W. ErwinDirectorThe Stories Exchange ProjectNew YorkAnd then there was Ethela Ferkova: sixteen at the beginning of the Stories Exchange Project in 1994. Fiercely bright but shy and giggly, and at first not seeming to take all this seriously. All this delving into the past of her people: hers at that point only in fact, […]