Mosaic

ane Armstrong traces the history of her family over a hundred years in what is far more more than merely a family a saga but is indeed a pivotal epic of suffering, survival and renewal in Jewish history. It explores the grand range of human emotions from hope, humour, friendship , love and tenderness......more

Ms. Armstrong, with her thoughtful words tells a complex multi-generational tale of a large Jewish family and its slow decent into the horrifying years that the madman Hitler ruled part of Europe. To tell the story of so many characters is difficult but Ms. Armstrong seems to do it with ease and con......more

My trip to Poland in 1999 was serendipity and was the result of my son calling to say hello from Israel during the one weekend during his teen mission that kids were permitted to visit relatives. That Shabbat phone call changed my life. And the trip that ensued still haunts me to this day. During th......more