Marcia Jacobs

Marcia Jacobs lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her essays and poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies here and abroad. These include Meanjin, Westerly Magazine, Poetica Magazine, Voices Israel and Singing For All He's Worth—Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg. (Picador). Marcia is currently working on a Memoir in Essays. The poem, AUGUST, is dedicated to Marcia's father, Jacob G. Rosenberg. At its centre, is the memory of accompanying him to the annual commemoration of the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto. She writes how it feels to continue a yearly ritual, which in the aftermath of his death, also precipitates recollections of regular Sunday walks along the pier. During this time together, he'd often tell her about his childhood and adolescence in Baluty, Lodz and about his parents and those final days before their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of his family, Jacob was the sole survivor.
Marcia Jacobs

August

August On the last Sunday in August, when cold winds press against their measured pace, the survivors still come to name the dead.   A hall, spare and simple, is cavernous without you, an empty chair beside me— in case I need to whisper in your ear. Memory is never Read more…

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