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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.
🪶 What We’re Not Passing Down
Journal Reflections from the USA250 Witnesses
Prompt:
“What are you choosing not to pass down?”
“What future would make your ancestors proud—not of your survival, but of your freedom?”
August 6, 2025
“I do not pass down hatred—not even for those who hunted us.”
We light candles not just for mourning—but to see each other.
Let our Jewishness shine.
Family, Friends & Associates
David Roth – Son.
Rebecca Roth – Daughter inlaw.
Eli Roth – Grandson.
Ari Roth – Grandson.
