By: julie haines

julie haines — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:29:33 +0000

Hi
I just came across you blog when I was too lazy to type in the url to mine and instead used Google. Really enjoyed reading this.
Funnily enough, my blog is also entiled ‘Dad’s Drawers’ and has a eerily similar theme. I started mine after my dad died in 2011 with thoughts of keeping a photographic record of all his various hoards/collections of bits and pieces in a variety of drawers. The blog turned into a bit more than just photographs, and started to include stories of growing up with an unconventional dad. My father too was an Austrian Jew, lucky enough to escape from Austria just before the rest of his family were rounded up. He to spent many of the war years in internment camps in France, Spain and Israel. He finally ended up here in the UK.
I found (and still find) that the blog helped the grieving process and I have been lucky enough to be able to clear through his stuff at a fairly slow pace as my mum still lives in the family home.
If you are interested, my blog can be found on wordpress as is entitled ‘Dad’s Drawers’ -A lifetime of Hoarding.

By: Alex Wieder

Alex Wieder — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 05:10:31 +0000

Thank you so much, Alan!!!

By: Alan Holzman

Alan Holzman — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 22:06:47 +0000

Wonderful, sensitive piece Alex. Thanks for sharing, especially during this week leading up to Father’s Day. Creative way of telling the reader about your dad and about you as well.

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