The Abandoned
by Evelyn Ripp
$14.00, Cover: paperback, ISBN: 0-9674074-7-8, ©2004

Contents

Foreword
A Word of Explanation
Prose
A Life Apart From Life
Poems
Why I Write
Lawlessness
German Invasion
Gretchko
GrandfatherÕs Tears
New Decrees
No One Escaped
Children in the Ghetto
Grandpa Escaped Murder
Ghetto Uprising,
I See Germans Shooting
Premonition of a Twelve-Year-Old
No Shoes
The Pripet Marshes
We Escaped
Hunted
Mosquitoes
The Pripet River
Kirush
Fireflies
Blitzkrieg
June ,
Nioma
Defying the Odds
Begging
Stepanetchko
Winter,
Trees
Stealing Potatoes
Hunger Won Out
Back in Lachva,
Final Solution
Displaced Persons: Camp Fšhrenwald,
Memories of My Father
Learning ÒAmericanÓ
The Power of Fear
The World Stood Silent
Haunted
In Place of Them
Reparations
Shoah Legacy
Visitations
Postscript
In One Moment I Was Robbed
Summing Up
Confronting God: A Monologue
Past Present
Past Perfect
Sabbath Afternoons
Childhood Memory
Credo
Faded Photographs
Talk Therapy
Dichotomy
Untitled
Support Group
Motherpoem
First Day of School
I Want to Be Free
Aftermath
Elizabeth Sarah, July ,
Reunion: Lachva Ghetto Survivors, Israel, June l
Thanksgiving,
Monument at Moriah
Fragments of Memory
The Red Dress
Photographs
Prose
Lachva Revisited
Poems
The Mass Grave
Lachva Now
The Old Cemetery
Partisan Pisarevitch
Photographs
Maps