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USA250 Journal Project
Personal Chronicle: July 4, 2025 – July 5, 2026
A gift for reflection. A record of now. A story for what’s next.
📝 “Who am I?”
I am Miriam bat Rachel v’Yonah.
I am a mother. A widow. A survivor.
I am a woman who carried three lives in her arms and buried two names in her chest. I have known hunger. I have known fear. I have known the silence of empty rooms and the miracle of voices returning.
I am not what I used to be. But I am still here.
I am stitched together by memory. My skin is soft now, but my spine remembers every border crossed, every friend lost, every Sabbath kept in secret.
I am not just my past—but I will not let it be erased.
📝 “How did I get here?”
I got here by hiding in a crawlspace.
By saying yes when I wanted to scream no.
By praying in whispers and running when the trains came.
I was six when the men with guns came to our street. I was nine when we crossed the ocean. I was fifteen when I learned to sew. I was twenty-one when I said “I do” in a borrowed dress, and I was thirty-nine when my husband died of a heart too heavy.
I raised a son who became a teacher. He married a woman who does not waste time on soft words. And together, they gave me grandchildren—one who speaks loudly with his body, the other who speaks softly with his mind.
I got here by remembering what others wanted me to forget.
I may forget the days of the week now. But I do not forget what matters.
Family, Friends & Associates
David Roth – Son.
Rebecca Roth – Daughter inlaw.
Eli Roth – Grandson.
Ari Roth – Grandson.
