She pins a note to the baby’s shirt: Rachel, my love. Live!
LIVE! BY UTE CARSON 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 47
It is 1942. Miriam leans against a wall of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. Daily roundups and deportations have depleted the population and it is rumored that soon the ghetto will be burned down. All checkpoints are heavily guarded and anyone attempting to escape is shot on the spot.
Hunger and exhaustion h…