At the outbreak of World War II, almost half of Chelms 36,000 residents were Jewish, but only a few hundred survived the war-virtually wiping out a community that had lived for 700 years in southeastern Poland.
Eight of Arlene Blaier Burrows relatives somehow survived. Seventy-two members of her family, however, were killed in the Holocaust.
In A Return to Chelm, she goes on a deeply personal journey to learn more about her Blayer and Groman relatives who lived and died. In the process, she forges a connection with all the Jews of Chelm.
She traces genealogy, explores...
At the outbreak of World War II, almost half of Chelms 36,000 residents were Jewish, but only a few hundred survived the war-virtually wiping out a co...
