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Who am I?
Ever since I returned from Poland, I’m amazed at how like my family I am. Little things, here and there, suddenly pop into my head and I...
Halina St James
Aug 21, 20243 min read


The man who rarely smiled
For more than 70 years, I had no idea of what my father looked like. My mother cut him out of every photograph she had, after she bundled...
Halina St James
Jul 12, 20243 min read


The unintended history lesson
"This is like being in history class." That is what my friend Peter Chapman’s daughter, Georgia, told me at dinner with her parents and...
Halina St James
Jun 26, 20242 min read
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