Dedicated To My Parents

My parents Alexander and Mina Perlberger were holocaust survivors. My dad was in a concentration camp, but he was truly a survivor in all respects. He had a wonderful sense of humour and a zest for life. I learned two important things from him. First of all, to always judge people individually, and more importantly, to see the postive things in life. I always think of my dad like Anne Frank who wrote in her diary, "I think the world may be going through a phase, the way I was with Mother.It'll pass, maybe not for hundreds of years, but some day... I still believe in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart." I choose to see the positive side of life like my dad when I can. My mom wrote a diary like Anne Frank and her original diary is in the Yad Vashem Museum in Israel and a copy is in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. She sadly didn't survive the holocaust too well, but she expressed her sadness through her art, poetry, and sewing. I know when I paint, write poems, or just go to my sewing room to create the quilts, dolls, or whatever, I think of her. She did see the beauty in the world, and I did get that from her. I decided to make this fabric postcard for them. I used watercolour pencils to make the drawing. My dad would have liked the smile on Solly's face, and my mom would have remembered the family she never forgot. I will remember my parents with a smile on my face, as I think about all the good times we had together.

PS: Here is a pic of my parents.. My dad made that doll house in the pic that I included...He also built much of our furniture in our house...In addition, he was a signmaker, and built the old Macy's sign in NY among others...He then started a fabric store called Mina's Dry Goods which both my parents ran. He built it out of an old basement in the house that we lived in on Rosalie Street , and it landed up being very popular and successful. I used to go to NY with my dad every weekend for many years, and he would drop me off on 5th Avenue while he went to the fabric district there to buy fabric. Then later in the day, he would pick me up at Tiffany's...You remember "Breakfast at Tiffany" with Audrey Hepburn... Because of my trips with my dad, NY was almost like my second home to me. Well, they were married almost 50 years and were a wonderful couple. I am lucky enough to have a marriage like that with Joe.