I had jotted down on a legal pad my recollections, about 8 pages of notes. It wasn’t until 1979 that I spoke publicly about the Holocaust, first in a synagogue, and then in schools and organizations. Few classmates of mine at Peoria Central High School knew of my past until some 40 years later, when Four Perfect Pebbles was first published. I had to put those years behind me and get on with life.Īnd, because of the enormity of the suffering we endured, I never thought anyone would believe me if I did tell them about my wartime experiences, about my 6 1/2 years of incarceration in transit and concentration camps. When I arrived in the United States, at age 13, I was so busy learning English and trying to catch up to a proper grade for my age, and working after school to help my Mom pay bills, that I had no time to talk about my terrible past. Print How Four Perfect Pebbles Came into Book Form
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