Interview with Linda Margolin Royal (The Star on the Grave)
Article and Interview by Elise Cooper The Star on the Grave by Linda Margolin Royal is a wonderful novel that explains the reasons why Holocaust survivors refused to talk about those horrific days and why some chose to no longer embrace their Jewish heritage, hoping future generations would never know the hatred and antisemitism that they had experienced. The story begins with Rachel Margol, a twenty-year-old nurse in 1968 Sydney who only learns she is Jewish after she becomes engaged …