Erasing Sadness
SINGER, SUZANNE F.
Erasing Sadness Daughters of Absence— Transforming a Legacy of Loss Mindy Weisel, editor Sterling, VA.: Capital Books, Inc., 2000. 216 pp., $26.95 REVIEWED BY SUZANNE F. SINGER Mindy...
...Suzanne F. Singer is executive editor of MOMENT...
...Some describe and illustrate the art in their lives—such as the 15 evocative poems of Miriam Morsel Nathan and the brooding photographs of Vera Loefner, printed in subde duotones, which poignantly capture loss...
...Hadassah Lieberman, wife of the former vice presidential candidate, shares the diary of her experiences as a member of the U.S...
...Weisel reveals her transformation from an artist of dark brooding canvases containing her father's tattooed number to one celebrating her mother Lili's love of beauty—paintings exploding with color...
...Each woman tells a profoundly personal story...
...delegation to the 50th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation...
...And she writes exuberantly about her pride as an American, "a country where a Jew could become a senator and his wife, a child of survivors, could be chosen by the president" to commemorate the liberation of the "planet of death...
...216 pp., $26.95 REVIEWED BY SUZANNE F. SINGER Mindy Weisel, one of the first babies born to Holocaust survivors in Bergen-Belsen (the concentration camp transformed into a displaced persons camp after World War ?), describes her life as "about trying to be everything to my parents...
...Not all the women Weisel invited to this book are artists, but all have "transformed a legacy of loss...
...Patinka Kopec's essay, "My Life in Music," tells how she has kept alive the music of her family by becoming a master teacher of violin and viola...
...Lieberman writes of Auschwitz—to which her mother was brought directly from a Passover seder and to which her father was destined but escaped...
...Like the 12 other daughters who contribute to this book, she desperately struggled "to erase the sadness we inherited...
Vol. 27 • February 2002 • No. 1
