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Cindy Silverman

Cindy Silverman

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Our Table Was Full

Our Table Was Full

I don’t remember this particular Rosh Hashanah, although I know exactly who would have been there. There were five of us in my family: my parents,...

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Cindy Silverman

I shook his hand

When I saw him walking toward my table I thought, Oh. This is going to be interesting. I was calm. I was collected. I was ready. He was 92 years old....

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Tell Me About That

Every year I arrive at WWII Weekend, one of the largest World War II commemorative events in the country, held in Reading, Pennsylvania, prepared to...

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The Box My Grandmother Kept: Writing Back to the Dead After October 7

My grandmother survived the Holocaust by never speaking about it. That silence was its own kind of erasure, and for fifty years it worked. Her answer...

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