the deaths of my aunts and cousins, who counted the days of their niddah time according to the law, separated hallah from the dough, ran to the dayyan with questions about a spot on a slaughtered goose, and read from the Ze’enah U-Re’enah every free moment—and their reward was to be humiliated to the dust and tortured until they perished. Five minutes from Ravensbrück, I would even have eaten a baby goat cooked in its mother’s milk. Instead, I took a Valium. References 1924 births 2003 deaths Czech Jews Writers from Bratislava Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors Malchow concentration camp survivors Czechoslovak emigrants to Israel Israeli journalists Israeli Jews Israeli newspaper editors 20th-century journalists