Displaced Persons: Growing Up American after the Holocaust
Joseph Berger
2001
There was a rumpled old Polish man who boarded in the apartment of our building’s superintendent. With baggy pants, fraying suspenders, a wrinkled hat, and a wooden cane, he looked like the lovable 1950s television character Charlie Weaver. The Polish man, though, was embittered and grouchy. He didn’t like our playing in front of the house…
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