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Eric Silberman is a physician and writer based in New York City. Prior to medical school he spent a year in Warsaw, Poland as a Fulbright scholar, where he wrote fiction and nonfiction related to his Polish-Jewish heritage.
My survivor grandmother feared that no one would believe her. Now I know why.
April 19th was warm in Warsaw, just like it had been 71 years earlier. I left my apartment wearing a coat, which I soon shed as I walked due North toward the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. As I did, I removed from it and restuck a paper daffodil to my shirt, unsure…
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