“Mein Schlüssel hat das Haus verloren. My Key has lost its House”
elana levy translated and published a selection of Rose Ausländer’s poetry in 2018. She reads from Ausländer’s work in the original German, and then her English translations.
Tracing my Parents’ Past Lives
“My mother always said that Sunday babies are destined to be lucky. This was certainly true for me, born in the United States in late 1939 to Jewish immigrants. My parents escaped from Nazi Germany. Thanks to affidavits from American cousins, my father arrived in New York 1936 and my mother followed in 1937.”
“Survival is sweet revenge”– A displaced child’s search for identity and belonging
Anna Rabkin was born in Krakow, Poland. World War II forced her family to flee the invading German army. Her family was hunted by Communists and persecuted by the Nazis, only Anna and her brother survived.