The Smoker Three Hundred Zlotys The Parade King of Yiddish Homecoming on Riverside Korczak’s Boys Iron Eagle on West 11th Street German Lessons Love of the Land My Musical Education The Right to Happiness Glossary Acknowledgments About the Author Amsterdam Publishers Holocaust LibraryA collection of short stories inhabited by inheritors of the Holocaust striving to seize whatever life has left to them.In eleven compelling stories inheritors of the Holocaust strive to seize whatever life has left to them. International award-winning author Helen Schary Motro’s intimate and poignant fiction paints the panorama of their emotional canvas: renewal as well as trauma, insight as well as sorrow, ingenuity as well as loss. Some fail to recover, while others do all to achieve solace. - Unable to pierce her parents’ wall of hidden mourning, a child dreams her perished grandparents back to life.- A Yiddish actor turns radio host after the war - until his language becomes obsolete. Can he reinvent himself yet again?- Hoarding discarded cigarette butts from her parents’ ashtrays, a girl smokes in secret to mimic the grandmother who starved in the ghetto.- A reluctant piano student learns that master classes teach more than concertos.- A survivors’ daughter yearns to live her American dream at the Thanksgiving Day Parade, but the subway from Brooklyn takes her farther away.- Facing Israel’s imminent annihilation an assimilated survivor discovers what she really cares about.Readers will cry at their pain, will smile with recognition - may even laugh - along with Motro’s moving survivors and their children as the past continues to reverberate upon them.A collection inhabited by inheritors of the Holocaust striving to seize whatever life has left to them.International award-winning author Helen Schary Motro’s intimate and poignant fiction paints the panorama of their emotional canvas: renewal as well as trauma, insight as well as sorrow, ingenuity as well as loss. Some fail to recover, while others do all to achieve solace.- A girl hoards discarded cigarette butts from her parents’ ashtrays, smoking in secret to mimic the grandmother who starved in the ghetto.- A classical Yiddish actor turns radio host after the war - until his language becomes obsolete. Can he reinvent himself yet again?- Unable to pierce her parents’ wall of mourning and secrecy, a child dreams her perished grandparents back to life.- A reluctant piano student discovers that master classes teach more than concertos.- Facing Israel’s imminent annihilation an assimilated survivor discovers what she really cares about.Readers will cry at their pain, will smile with recognition - may even laugh - along with Motro’s unforgettable survivors and their children as the past continues to reverberate upon them.