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Jul 4, 2018, 3:15 PM

I wish I had asked more questions but I grew up in a post Holocaust family who were in a rush to create new lives and stories of family history were tossed off like some excess birthday balloons. But my...

Jun 24, 2018, 4:49 PM

I called the late ‘70s Sunday summer pool parties held by my Holocaust survivor parents and their friends “Greener Acres” after the hit American television program “Green Acres” . The series was about a Hungarian accented city socialite unwillingly...

Jun 21, 2018, 3:25 PM

Death, uninvited, entered the room. My father's fingers slipped from mine, his once strong hands, blotched, torn by the ravages of his illness. He fought and fought and yet, the heartless clock on the hospital wall advanced. In my mind, he is...

Jun 16, 2018, 9:10 AM

The Silent Lion

I first met Max Krauser the day our family moved into our new home in Teaneck, New Jersey, a leafy suburb six miles north of New York City. My parents had bought a large house at the top of a...

Jun 13, 2018, 3:58 PM

“Vere ist Shirley Temple?”

I always had fun teasing my European-born Holocaust survivor parents about American holidays. “You were married on Washington’s Birthday!” I told my mother. “We didn’t know!” she said. “Mother’s Day” and “Father’s Day” were problematic. We were supposed to honor our parents every...

Jun 9, 2018, 6:11 PM

I was attending a luncheon for a famous writer at Mar-a-Largo, Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida estate, when Trump walked in, unannounced. He was wearing golf clothes, his hair was rumpled, his face flushed. He spoke without a note. He said the...

Jun 8, 2018, 8:07 AM

It was two years after the ’67 war. I was visiting my widowed paternal grandmother, aunt and her family in Haifa, Israel during summer break from college. They had been living in Israel since 1948. My immediate family immigrated...

Jun 6, 2018, 12:55 AM

We lived in a Williamsburg, Brooklyn apartment. My parents, Holocaust survivors, spoke Yiddish, the language of their Poland and Romanian homes. They were born and raised in rural villages. My father had a fascination with auto mechanics. His skills helped him during...

Jun 1, 2018, 4:17 PM

The story after the story. In 2005, my daughters (then 9 and 13) and myself and about 50 congregants and the rabbi and his family joined a ten day Palm Beach Synagogue trip to Israel. We brought along a torah...

May 31, 2018, 6:59 PM

My mother turned 91 on April 3. At least, we think her birthday is April 3. She never had a birth certificate, so after the war she picked April 3. I heard that she and her surviving three sisters...

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About Me

Elaine Rosenberg Miller is a lawyer, writes fiction and non-fiction, and has served as a college adjunct. Her work has appeared on numerous online and print publications, domestically and abroad.