WRITING WORKS

       for memory, healing & art's sake

       

Forest Park High School,

Balto., Md., age 16

age 20

at the stove

married & miserable

Esther, apartment on Sequoia Ave.

Baltimore, Md. 1961

home

My father, Iser Helfgott

when he first came to America from Russia, age 22.

He, his parents, Jacob and Katya, and sister, Miriam, came through Ellis Island on the ship Olympic

My paternal grandfather, Jacob Helfgott, Baltimore, c 1930s