Judith H. Sherman

About The Author

Born in Kurima, Slovakia, Judith H. Sherman is a Holocaust survivor now living in New Jersey. She is the mother of three, the grandmother of five, and a widow. A retired social worker and psychotherapist, she is the author of the acclaimed memoir Say The Name: A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry.

Books by Judith H. Sherman

The Empty Bowl

Poems of the Holocaust and After

By Judith H. Sherman
Afterword by Ilana Gelb / Foreword by Arthur Kleinman
In The Empty Bowl: Poems of the Holocaust and After, Holocaust survivor Judith H. Sherman strives to record trauma through art. Her poems, written largely in the words of a fifteen-year-old survivor, provide historical entry into the Holocaust. Put simply, the poems explore the reality of the eve...
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Say the Name

A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry

By Judith H. Sherman
Introduction by Davíd Carrasco
Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and t...
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