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I had the privilege of interviewing Esther Safran for during the quarantine.

She is the author of the beautiful memoir called I Want You to Know We're Still Here,

a post-Holocast memoir, which is all about her family and her attempt to record so much that

she found.

Esther was the CEO of Sixth and I, a center for arts, ideas, and religion. She

currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Burt. They are the parents of Franklin,

Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, Saffronford, and Joshua Saffronfor, who are both

accomplished amazing authors in their own right. And she is the mom of all three of those boys and wrote this beautiful book. And we had such a nice chat during quarantine. And I hope you enjoy it and get as much out of it as I did. Welcome, Esther. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have time to read books. Well, thank you. Thank you for having me.

I am so honored to talk to you because I feel like, and maybe this is wrong, but having

read your memoir, I feel like now I know you, so now I can like dig deeper on some of the things

that you talked about that I'm even more interested in knowing.

Great, great.

So your book is called I Want You to Know We're Still Here, a Post-Holocast Memoir,

which I also thought was sort of an interesting title because it's so much told from your point of view now, and I know it's about what happened in the past.

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