60 Years

60 Years is a collection of poems that focuses on the Holocaust, as well as the effects of the Holocaust some sixty years later on the survivors and the descendants of survivors. 60 Years mostly deals with the life and times of different members of my family who were alive during World War II. Since my family was centered in Riga, Latvia during the Holocaust, not many of them survived. Those that did survive, lived very harsh lives during those years and came out of it scarred both physically and emotionally. My daughter Emma, who has not yet seen her second birthday, is also very much a part of this work, as she is the culmination of the determination to survive shown by all these great people. She is the first generation of my family born in the United States, and she gives me hope that my family will only ever witness such experiences again in books.