Sarah Dreams of Pitichipoi |
A Hidden Child's Memoir of the Holocaust in France |
by Sarah Suzanne Gross, $17.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-9793771-4-3, © 2008, 103 pp |
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While in hiding, because I had to be quiet and silent, I
stopped singing. It had been one of my favored activities as a child. Once, in the U.S. in the fifties, I joined the folk
music movement through the Folk Song Society of Philadelphia and performed as a featured International folk singer at their Folk Music Festival concerts.
My husband, Milton, offered me my first fine instrumentó
a Martin guitar. I also play a vielle, which is a medieval
French folk instrument.
Later, when our three children left for college, I stopped being an ambulant folk
singer. I used the golden cachÈ of art appreciation and knowledge acquired through
my attendance for two years at the Barnes Foundation, became an art dealer, and
opened the Suzanne Gross Art Gallery. Also through my husband, a painter who
graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, life was filled with art.
Now, at this time of my life, why have I finally told my story of the Holocaust and that
of the children of Pitchipoi? Because it must be told...because it must not be buried in
silence and denial.
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Because it must be told ... |
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