Slices, Memoirinprogress

Slices: A Memoir-in-progress

In "Slices," Violet Wilson looks back at her first years away from home, first at college, then after dropping out, as she struggles to make sense of her urges to cut herself. She doesn't offer neatly wrapped-up explanations of her motivations; the vignettes focus on what she thought and how she felt in the moment. The few dispassionate memories of childhood abuse are not served up as "A-ha!" explanations, since that's not how it felt at the time. There is a lot of confusion, a lot of shame, and a lot of failed attempts to connect. But there are also some patient friends, a couple of morbidly comic moments in a mental hospital and at a funeral, and, by the end, a tiny smidgen of hope that Violet will find her way.









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Bitter Freedom: Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor





As a documentary filmmaker, I've collaborated on a number of Holocaust-related works, and have listened in shock and awe to nearly one hundred survivors as they recounted-often, for the first time-their individual and familial stories of tragedy and transcendence. Jafa Wallet's Bitter Freedom, , which I first read as an untitled manuscript in the late 1970's, is one of the most compelling first-person accounts by a Holocaust survivor that I have ever encountered. She evokes scenes which have resonated inside my head for nearly thirty years, and its publication is an important event not only for those interested in the Holocaust, but for everyone seeking illumination into the complexities and mysteries of what it means to be human.

Nelson E Breen, Emmy Award-winning writer and director

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