Collecting memories

“The floors in the kitchen were parquet. And I remember still in the kitchen corner was a big stand, and all kinds of plants were going down—this stays before my eyes—and the flowers were growing down, so nice…When you came up to the house, it was seven stairs, and then a veranda—like a big patio. At the front of the patio was a double door to go into the hall, and from the hall was the rooms….On the windows on the outside of the house we had wooden boxes, and we had Geraniums growing on every window—on the whole house, red Geraniums.”

-Manya Birnberg, 1989, on childhood home in Zborow, Poland