While survivor Edith Dach, Susan Terman’s mother, never wrote about her Holocaust experience, she and other family members told many stories to Susan. Susan then shared her family’s stories with her brother-in-law, Pittsburgh-area poet Philip Terman. From there, the book I am a Jew: A Holocaust Family Memoir was born.

Containing Susan’s sharing of her mother’s stories recast as poems, I am a Jew: A Holocaust Family Memoir describes episodes of one family’s personal Holocaust experience. Join the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh online on Friday, Feb. 21 at noon (Eastern Time), as we discuss the writing of the poetry and creation of the book, hear more about Edith Dach’s life and read some of the poems with Philip and Susan.