The Arithmetic of Survival
Ten Szureks entered the war. Four survived. The math did not end there.
Miriam, Edna, and Yakov Szurek, postwar. Three siblings who survived the Holocaust on the Aryan side of Warsaw. Out of ten immediate family members, four survived.
Look at this photograph.
Three faces.
A young woman.…
Edna Stefania Brill – Warsaw, 1989 Standing at the Mila 18 memorial, site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising command bunker. The mound was built from the stones of her childhood home. It was here, in this building, that would one day house the command bunker of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, that she came into the…
