Karen I. Treiger is a Seattle native who retired from her law practice to research and write a book — “My Soul is Filled with Joy: A Holocaust Story” — about her in-laws, Sam and Esther Goldberg, and their story of escape, rescue and resilience.
Karen Treiger
By Karen Treiger
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Community Poland Must Reckon With How It Treated Jews During WWII, For Good And For Bad
The “Polish Death Camp Law” has stirred many feelings across Poland and Israel, and among Diaspora Jewry. Jail time has been removed for making a claim that “the Polish nation or the Republic of Poland is responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich,” but the law remains on the books. Many…
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Community Walking Through Schindler’s List
Of course I have seen Schindler’s List, the 1993 Holocaust movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Who hasn’t? Well, my 18-year-old daughter, Esther. So, we huddled on the bed in our tiny hotel room in Amsterdam, next to one of the many canals, and watched it on our laptop computer. After being in Krakow, watching this…
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Community The Dead Don’t Lie
We visited the dead in Stoczek. The dead don’t lie. Stoczek is the Shtetl where Esther was born and the place from which Sam was taken to the Death Camp Treblinka. There are enough ghosts here to compete with Hogwarts. Grzegorz Maleszewski took us to Stoczek. Our first stop was the vacant lot that once…
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Community Fievel Goes East
The center of town – a large open circular area – was packed on market days. Jews and Poles came, three times a week. They set up tables and sold their produce and wares – flea-market style. All around the center, there was permanence – a large Synagogue, homes and shops. All kinds of shops…
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Community So, You Want to Write a Holocaust Book?
Elie Wiesel’s death makes us face, yet again, the loss of the generation that survived the Holocaust. We mourn for each of them. My in-laws, Sam and Esther Goldberg, born in Poland, survived the Holocaust. They are buried in Israel. I am writing a book that tells the story of their survival. Sam was one…
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