A grandfather's grave
from Robin Lustig ... In a far corner of the “new” Jewish cemetery (opened 1902) in the Polish city of Wrocław, Piotr Gotowicki is...
Poland Past and Present
From Stu Seidel ... Poland was so extensively devastated during World War II that it can seem a 65-year-old visitor to the country is...
Death and Life in Kaunas
From Stu Seidel ... Like most tourists visiting Europe, Robin Lustig and I set out on our current trip to Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and...
Honouring Ilse Cohn (1897-1941)
from Robin Lustig A sun-dappled meadow slopes gently down from the hilltop towards the city of Kaunas. The grass is freckled with yellow...
A postcard from Pastavy
From Robin Lustig ... What is it about railway stations that conjures up ghosts of the past? We’re standing on the platform in Pastavy...
A Sunny Day in Postavy
From Stu Seidel ... One hundred years ago this year, my grandfather, Julius Seidel, then a 16-year-old boy, left his parent’s home in the...
Greetings from London
From Stu Seidel ... About six months ago, my friend Robin Lustig and I started talking about doing some sort of project together. We had...
To begin at the beginning
From Robin Lustig ... London — So what’s this all about? Well, it seems that when some chaps get to a certain age, they start to wonder...
