Writing My Mother-In-Law’s Memoir Created a Path Towards Forgiveness
She survived the war, we inherited the silence. Writing her story helped me forgive what I never understood—until now.
I did not set out to write My Name Is Not Rifka as a path toward forgiveness. I began with a need to document my mother-in-law’s life, a Holocaust survivor whose refusal to talk about her wartime experience frustrated and bewildered me.