daisies in remembrance




In Terezin there flows the river Ohře.

With the war almost lost, the Germans decided that it was best for their post-war image to dispose of all ashes kept in a columbarium nearby.

It proved too cumbersome to bury this enormous quantity; the ashes were thus thrown into the river Ohře.

In memory of our grandmother Kaufmann and our aunt, uncles and six cousins—the last of the Elieser Kalonymos—who never returned "from the East," I picked these daisies on the banks of the river Ohře, near Terezin, in Czechoslovakia.