One spring morning in the ghetto, my mother, sisters, and I went
down the steps into the cellar. Mother was holding a long tube,
which she had filled with the few pieces of jewelry she still had
from her wedding. She looked at us, her daughters, and removed the
earrings I loved so much. She dug a small hole in the ground,
wrapped the tube in numerous layers of cloth, placed it in the
earth, and we all joined in to cover the hole. "This is so you, my
dear daughters, will have something to start with when you return."
From her poverty-stricken, yet happy childhood in Hungary, when the
author was strongly influenced by her family and community's
Zionist ideology, to the hell of Auschwitz and her escape from the
Death March in the final days of war, to the tumultuous period in
Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel, Rachel
Bernheim-Friedman's life was and is filled with passion,
determination, and a strong will to survive and build to build a
better life, a Jewish state, and a hopeful future for her children
and grandchildren. Continued in Jerusalem, Lebanon, Palestine, the
United States and Israel, Earrings in the Cellar is a story that
should not be missed.
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