by Barbara Bergren | May 27, 2020 | Blog
I have to admit that I hesitated when I was invited to attend my first book club meeting on Zoom. After launching Witness For My Father, our lives changed so quickly, and like other major life events, you have to adapt, and have hope! For heaven’s sake, that’s the...
by Barbara Bergren | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog
On April 29, 1945, my father was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. In memory of this, I’d like to share an excerpt from my book: Witness For My Father, chapter twenty-one: Dachau was the only camp my father would talk about. Even...
by Barbara Bergren | Apr 21, 2020 | Blog, Updates
Each year at this time, I feel the extra weight of suffering. On April 29th my dad was liberated from Dachau, and today we honor Yom HaShoah, the day of remembrance for the six million Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. This is a landmark year to honor the...
by Barbara Bergren | Mar 26, 2020 | Blog
“Mietek had finished cataloging his stamp collection. He was tired. Alone in his room, he stared out his window at the forbidden outdoors. He would give anything to be back in school, sitting behind the wooden desk next to Alex. How many math tests had he missed? How...
by Barbara Bergren | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”Martin Luther King Jr. The U.S. army was still segregated in 1945, the year my father was liberated from the German Dachau concentration camp. Weighing less than 100 pounds, he was close to...
