title: The Risk of Sorrow: Conversations with Holocaust Survivor, Helen Handler
author:  Valerie Foster 
description: Valerie Stapleton Foster taught high school English for thirty years and currently holds an adjunct faculty position at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Arizona, teaching future teachers. Author of a memoir, Dancing With a Demon, and a short story, Loss, published in the River Poets Anthology, she lives in Gilbert, Arizona with her husband, Tom. Helen Handler is a long-standing member and past president of the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors Association and a member of Beth El Congregation and past president of the Jewish Free Loan. As a former business owner of a drapery shop in Phoenixs Metro-Center Mall, she is proud of having provided a livelihood for her loyal employees for thirteen years. Helen was a member of Toastmasters International for seventeen years and is a prominent public speaker in the greater Phoenix, Arizona area. A recipient of numerous awards and recognition, she devotes her time to speaking to schoolchildren every chance she gets, imparting her wisdom and message of hope and peace.
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  ## The Hollow Men
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( From the Fire - 3 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Kent David Kelly
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  On April 4th, 2014, 6 billion and 783 million people died in the blinding
  white fireballs of the Pan-Global Nuclear Holocaust. Sophie Saint-Germain,
  wife and scientist and mother of one, was not among them.
  
  
  She lived for a time, and so her words endure.
  
  
  The reclamation of her terrifying story is a miracle in itself. Uncovered
  during the Shoshone Geyser Basin archaeological excavations of 2316, Sophie’s
  unearthed diary reveals the most secret confessions of the only known female
  survivor of the Holocaust in central Colorado. Her diary reveals the truths
  behind our legends of the High Shelter, the White Fire, the Great Dying, the
  Coming of the One, and the Gray Rain Exodus, her horrifying journey into the
  wasteland made with the sole conviction that her daughter, Lacie, was still
  alive.
  
  
  For these are the first of words, chosen by the Wo