Our uncles, twenty, twenty-five years old, would come in in the evenings and dance ballroom dances with us, when we were three, four, five. Then they took them, and our father, all the Jewish men, to slave hard labor. They put them to work by the railway tracks. The German soldiers would pass by on the trains and shoot for fun, at them and at the Romanian guards. My uncle says that one of the prisoners would always lie with his ear on the tracks to hear if a train was approaching, so they could hide from the Germans in time, they and their guards. Once She Was A Child
12/47 Illegal Alyah on Pan Crescent, a small ship built to hold 450 people, yet crowded with 7,500 Holocaust survivors.
7/48 Legal Alyah to the newly founded Israel State.
When we were about to disembark from the ship that had brought us over from the detention camps in Cypress, a tall man came and picked me up in his arms — I was thin and small like an eight year old — and took me down the gangplank as far as the port, and said, "Don't cry little girl, from now on everything will be well for you." I didn't understand what he was talking about, I had been so lucky. Pity was for others. On the other hand, if the past incited pity, you had to throw it away as fast as possible. Once She Was A Child
....Public Activity:
1975 During terrorist attacks in the Galilee, initiated and organized six months of biweekly meetings between Arab and Jewish youth leaders and artists (writers, composers, dramatists).
1991 Taught writing workshop at Ms. Conference, NYC.
1984-95 Founded and directed HILAI, The Israeli Center for the Creative Arts.
2002 Hebrew and English Literature B.A. studies at the Tel-Aviv University.
Awards and Honors:
1973 The Hebrew Writers Association Publication Prize.
1978 The Aricha Prize for "Revelation"
1979/95 The Institute for Translations of Heb. Lit. Translation grants.
1987 The New Israel Fund Wyner Prize.
1988 The Institute for a Better Israel Award.
1988 The Tel-Aviv Foundation for Arts & Culture Grant.
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