Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Laura Hillman

Born: October 16, 1923
Died: June 4, 2020 (aged 96)
Bio: Laura Hillman was German-born survivor of Holocaust concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau with the help of Oskar Schindler. She was also a writer and memoirist, as well as a lecturer on the Holocaust, and a docent at the Long Beach Museum of Art.