Holding on to the Past

Abstract

What was missing from my father’s life—and ours—were the brothers and their families in Argentina. The four brothers, Duved, Meyer, Moishe, and Martin, kept the connections strong throughout the years, through letters, wedding and birth announcements, and occasional phone calls. There were gifts sent through landsleit in Buenos Aires coming to New York. I remember one year my father traveled by bus to New York (375 miles) to pick up a watch that his brother Duved had sent through a friend.