Badenheim 1939; Katerina; review of Aharon Appelfeld’s The Story of a Life – survivors’ stories full of beauty and pain
“God is in the sky,” young Aharon Appelfeld’s grandfather told him, “and there is nothing to fear.” Appelfeld was born into a middle-class Jewish family in what is now Ukraine in 1932, but by 1938 “the ground was burning under our feet” and he and his family were subsequently deported to a Nazi labor camp.… Read More »