Daniella Carmi is a children’s author, screenwriter, and playwright, born in Tel Aviv. Her books for youth have been translated into several languages. She has also written drama episodes for Israeli television, as well as novels and short stories.
Superimposed upon my face in the mirror is my mother’s. I am about to comb my hair, but here she is, brushing hers, her thick, wavy, white hair.
We quarrelled about hair.
“D…
He never mentions it by name. It might have been Trebibor or Majdawitz, Soblinka or Birkenhausen. He talks about “the camp,” as if there had been just one.
“After the war,” he says, “I saw a film…