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March Of The Living 1992: Excerpts From My Journal
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First published January 1, 1993
About the author
Dara Horn
26 books834 followersDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books. One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007), she is the recipient of three National Jewish Book Awards, among other honors, and she was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year, and have been translated into twelve languages.
Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tablet, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications.
Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America, Israel, and Australia.
She currently serves as Creative Adviser for The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History.
She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.
Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tablet, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications.
Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America, Israel, and Australia.
She currently serves as Creative Adviser for The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History.
She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.
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September 1, 2017
I read some of this journal shortly after Dara Horn wrote it as a teenager and I included a section in the course packet of the Holocaust Literature class I taught in the 1990's. Dara movingly described her feelings as she stared at the bins of clothing, hair, glasses and shoes of the victims. As she sat before the bin of shoes, she noticed that one set of shoes looked like the ones she wore. Then she saw the shoes of her mother and the loved ones in her life. This became an intense moment of connection.
Setting up a week long Holocaust Commemoration in Indiana, I suggested they start with students donating shoes and place them in a bin in the school's lobby. The shoes were later given to a charitable organization. At the opening ceremony, the students stood before the bin while Dara Horn's journal entry on shoes was read. The students were moved, some to tears, seeing their own shoes in the bin.
Dara has become a fine author with a marvelous writing style and well developed characters. That intense segment on shoes still remains a moving moment of literature for me.
Setting up a week long Holocaust Commemoration in Indiana, I suggested they start with students donating shoes and place them in a bin in the school's lobby. The shoes were later given to a charitable organization. At the opening ceremony, the students stood before the bin while Dara Horn's journal entry on shoes was read. The students were moved, some to tears, seeing their own shoes in the bin.
Dara has become a fine author with a marvelous writing style and well developed characters. That intense segment on shoes still remains a moving moment of literature for me.
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