Madelaine Zadik, Author at Consequence Forum

Madelaine lives in the wooded hills of western Massachusetts. A former botanic garden educator and editor of Botanic Garden News, she now devotes herself to writing. Currently, she is working on a memoir about her relationship with her Aunt Helga, whom she never knew except through letters Helga wrote from prison in Nazi Germany. In 2021, she was a speaker at Liberation75, an International Conference to mark the 75th anniversary of liberation from the Holocaust. Her work has appeared in DoveTales: A Writing for Peace Literary Journal of the Arts, The Write Launch, Shark Reef, the Still Point Arts Quarterly, Months to Years, Public Garden, Roots, and Being Home: An Essay Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2021).

Avoidance

by Madelaine Zadik | Jan 16, 2022 | Nonfiction

Ursula Zadik’s German passport, issued by the Nazis on December 9, 1936.This is the second page, which shows the Nazi insignia stamp. My parents, Ursula and Erwin, didn’t leave Nazi Germany until 1939. By then my father had been in a concentration camp and my mother...