Beshert · בַּאשֶׁערט
September 1947. Two sections of one magazine. A boy behind wire. An actor among the Voices of the Dead. They would never meet.
Stefcia (Kajtek), age nine, during the Warsaw Uprising, 1944.
Before she was Kajtek, she was Stefcia. Before she was Stefcia, she was Edna.
Thank you Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley for celebrating Allentown’s Edna Brill for Women’s History Month.
In ‘Who will tell my story?’ Edna once asked. Daughter-in-law Janet Bond Brill answers with a book on glamours grandma who foiled the Nazis as a kid.