Mark Horowitz <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com> Fri, Mar 18 at 10:20 PM Dear friends, If any of you are looking for ways to support Ukrainian refugees and those trapped within the country, I just want to let you know that The Uniterra Foundation has recently channeled $7,250 dollars to a Polish non-profit that…

names changed/some editing from original email to my friend — Hi Glenn, We spent several hours with them today — met on Kraków main square and went for some food. Unexpected pro-Ukraine “NATO Clear the Skies” demonstration took place while we were there. The girls are bright and pleasant. They speak Russian at home, and Ukrainian at school. Of the…

an email to my Polish journalist friend Hello Dearest Adam, I’m not sure what you mean by your last email, but I probably have not communicated my thoughts clearly. I’m glad Biden is President now, and not Trump. Why? Because he was and is in a much better position to…

UPDATE 1 March 2022 Today we left Kraków heading to friends in the Dolomites. Made it halfway — spending the night in Melk, Austria, on the Danube. Quite a few civilian vehicles with Ukrainian tags on the road. Saw no obvious military activity on the main east-west highway from Śląsk…

I write late Sunday evening, February 27th, from Kraków, Poland, a city I know well. I learned Polish here in the 1970’s, began medical studies, and simultaneously took part in the Solidarity Free Trade Union movement. I met my Kraków-born wife on the Main Square; our son was born five…

Two Jealousies Explored — Just a short blog entry exploring 2 of my jealousies; both centered on peers who went farther/did more in medicine. Scott Allen Lerner was born a few months before me in 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri — probably at Menorah Hospital. In the 1960’s he lived 4 blocks from us…

Laura Moser — a New Yorker Role Model Jewish Pioneer Pilgrim or Sniveling Selfish Coward? (all photos/images belong to the author) Part I — Berlin as I never knew it April, 2021, and I’m in Poland, though no thanks to the San Francisco Lufthansa agent. He didn’t want me to…