I respect all definitions of art, but I cherish most the definition which states that art is an expression of the desire to communicate on the most m… - Chava Rosenfarb

The more strongly I felt the urge to write, the weaker I felt in face of the enormity of the subject. I feared it, and this fear hovers over me to this day, whenever I try to write on the subject of the Holocaust.

Like most writers, I wanted to be read. But I also wanted the rest of Canada to know what I and millions of other Jews like me had lived through during those terrible war years. I wanted the non-Jewish world to recognize our pain, and I wanted to memorialize our vanished past and our lost communities. And so, I found myself once again face to face with the need to find a translator.

Writing is a lonely profession, and after the Holocaust, Yiddish writers were doubly lonely.