n>Ihad lived in Israel for five years when an elderly man named Gidon Lev called to ask if I could meet him for coffee. He had been referred to me by a fellow editor. At a small café in Ramat Gan, Lev explained that he was a Holocaust survivor and had written about his life and needed help to turn his work into a book. I learned that of the 15,000 children imprisoned in or transported through the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt, fewer than 100 survived. Lev was one of those children. He also was the first Holocaust survivor I had ever met.Read Full Article »
