Yale Strom

When ‘Angel’ Crushed by Crane Was a Jewish Boy Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

In December of 1988, I traveled behind the Iron Curtain to research my book, A Tree Still Stands about Jewish youth in the Eastern Bloc, and how they felt being Jewish during this time of rapid change before the fall of the Berlin Wall. As I walked down the narrow cobblestone streets, wending my way…