Yiddish Word of the Day: Mensch
Mensch. Literally, a human being. More specifically good person, one who goes out of their way to do positive things.
Click below to hear Momma J define this Yiddish word and recall a mensch from her own life.
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Yiddish Word of the Day: Basheret
Basheret. Providence, foretold, predestined.
Today’s Yiddish word has mystical undertones. Click below to hear Momma J explain this word and how she has felt basheret in her own life.
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Ask Momma J: “What do think happened to your brother Kalman?”
In another Frequently Asked Question to Momma J she explains what she thinks may have happened to her brother Kalman after the Holocaust.
Click below to hear her answer.
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How did you have the nerve (chutzpah) to talk back to the German guard at the checkpoint?
In The Memory Project, Momma J. tells a story about being caught at a checkpoint with her brother. Hear her explains what happened.Confronting guard
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How many of your immediate family were taken away and probably killed. Can you name them and indicate their relationship?
Submitted by Harold from Tel Aviv. Almost all of my family was killed. Only one uncle survived-George. He left Poland before the war. My mother Roiseh, my father, Ephraim, my sister Henia and my brother Kalman were all killed. I lost my grandmother Esther, who I was very close to. I could go on and on if I included all of my cousins and aunts and uncles. The worst day of my life was when I got back to my home after the war and found out that everyone in my family had been killed. I still don’t know exactly how and when they all died, but I know that most of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were taken to Treblinka and killed. I recently learned that my father died in Maidanek in September 1942.
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