70 years after the last Pesach under the Nazis:
∞ Umschlagplatz ,Warsaw, Poland – The city is tearing down a deteriorating wall around a square where Warsaw’s Jews were lined up for deportation to Treblinka.
∞ Charleston, North Carolina A Jewish family wants to tear down a fireplace built by Nazi prisoners during WWII so the family’s land can be developed. Local folks, including other southern Jews, want the thing preserved as a memorial to how well German prisoners were treated in Charleston.
∞ Boston Massachusetts The pictures my father took just before Pesach 1945 are now rotting in a safe in Boston, rotting, locked there by my brother Hugh Schwartz out of a bizarre sense of malice, driven by fantasies about his own life and mine as his elder brother.