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Mirjama

“Mirjama” is an eerily rendered, quite literally haunting tale of the Holocaust, as remembered by one woman–a native of Riga, Latvia–as she experienced it. More

conversations from empire

Now, I have always loved the sea. I save whom I can. A baby be damned without a mother. A mother be damned without her child. A man be… More