I hardly have words to thank my mother, Jutta Levy, for her efforts in helping me shape her story into this book.

I am grateful to Eva Abraham-Podietz, Ingrid Bastien, Gilles Baumont, Gary Alan Bechhofer, Julian Berengaut, Irene Biro, Lotte Blaustein, Adi Fulda, Jean-Marc Grosfort, Rita Hilton, Ruth Horwitz, Lisa Kohlman, Celia Lee, Stephanie Owens Lurie, Irene Rehbock, Felicity Rose, and Brendan Ross.

Loving thanks to my husband, Rick Hoffman, for encouraging this project and for much helpful feedback on the manuscript.

I would like to acknowledge the people of my mother’s poesiealbum whom I have been unable to find. I would like to honor those who did not survive.

Whoever loves you more than me

should write behind me, certainly.1

With thoughts from your sister,

Ruth

The date is something I forgot,

I think it’s called

Forget-Me-Not.²