Tilia cordata

 As we’ve read this poem in class, the one thing I got from it was that the author Jacqueline Osherow may be Jewish. This is shown when she continually mentions things oriented towards the Holocaust. At one part, she was speaking with a little bit of hatred when she talked about the plight of Germans and how her family would count how many times she’d mention Germany. She may be a survivor or maybe a relative was a survivor or something of that nature.