My grandfather's Passover tradition gives me hope | Barbara Fischkin for CNNopinion
Barbara Fischkin is an author writing her fourth book, a historical novel which depicts Felshtin, her mother's lost shtetl, the Yiddish term for"town" often used to describe Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. She has worked as an international journalist and has a master's degree, which included shtetl and Holocaust studies. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion at CNN.
A hundred years ago, the 750,000-member Federation of Ukrainian Jews in America warned that 6 million in its region back home were in peril. This was after a spate of pogroms that killed at least 127,000. It made headlines. Then the issue was put on a back burner. I often click back to this vintage story, trying to figure out why more people don't know or talk about this warning in 1919. Or why there was no effective outcry from the powers that led our country and its allies. I have a personal connection to the pogroms of that year since my mother, then 6 years old, narrowly escaped one of them when she ran from a burning building. Her parents, who also survived, then took her and her two siblings on an arduous trip across Europe.
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