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Hana Tzipora (they/she) is a queer, neurodivergent, Jewish-American college student…

Hana Tzipora is a third-generation descendant of a Holocaust survivor. Her grandfather left Germany for the USA in the 1930’s. He died in 2012.

I have memories

that are not mine.

Half-invented histories

all blurry ‘round the edges,

As I try to fill in questions

no one is left to answer.

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is one of several such days which honor the victims and survivors of the Shoah. January 27th was chosen to commemorate the Red Army’s liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camps on January 27th, 1945.

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Hana Tzipora

Hana Tzipora (they/she) is a queer, neurodivergent, Jewish-American college student of Ashkenazi and Sephardi descent. She is a poet, artist, and singer-songwriter who plans to pursue a career in rabbinics. Originally from Maryland, Hana spent a gap year studying and volunteering in Israel, an experience which has heavily inspired much of her creative work since. She is an Assistant Art and Poetry Editor for “Green Golem: The Zionist Literary Magazine”.

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