Tag: camps

When I arrived in Lesvos in mid January of this year it was my first time returning to Greece, to the Island, and to Moria Refugee Camp since January of 2016. Much had changed in the intervening years, and much has changed just in the 5 weeks since I left Greece. The focus and purpose of my recen...

This week, I’ve been reading Daniel Finkelstein’s brilliant new memoir, Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family (Doubleday 2023), which deals with his Jewish family’s life in Nazi death camps and in the Gulag. The “miraculous” i...

“Did you hear? There’s a girl with another church who says she’s a lesbian!” another little girl exclaimed, followed by a chorus of embarrassed giggles from her listeners. I was eight years old when this happened, in the summer between the 3rd and 4th grades. It was m...