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n
did a 20 - year - old col-
lege student get inside the
ow
in Poland and also my husband's fami-
ly was killed by the Hitlers. They took
from us everything. The house, the
store. Even the old people they took
away.
"'Bring us di _ e alt war, zum
head of a 90-year-old
they said. This is German:
Schiessen,'
Holocaust survivor living
`Bring
us
fhe
old people, so we can kill
in a New Jersey nursing home? The
them.'"
author of the impressive debut novel
Tobe followed orders, brought her
Bring Us The Old People (Coffee-
parents and in-laws to the train sta-
House Press; $22.95), Marisa Kantor
tion, then went into hiding with her
Stark says she didn't have a choice.
In her junior year as a creative writ-- husband, Saul. Both sets of parents
perished at Auschwitz and all these
ing major at Princeton University,
years
later, she still blames herself.
Kantor Stark and. some.friends decid-
Kantor
Stark began writing a fic-
ed to visit a local Jewish nursing home
on Chanukah. There she met a 90-
year-old woman named Tobe,
Marisa Kantor Stark: 'My
.,-----'
who began to tell her life's
parents would buy me blank
story.
books and I'd fill them
As the friendly, fiercely
with poems and stories in
intelligent Tobe
the tree house in our
explained how she was
back yard, book after
born in a small village
book."
in Poland and barely
escaped the Nazis,
Kantor Stark says she
tional account based on
was mesmerized. She
the fragments Tobe relat-
returned to the nursing
ed to her. When she
home once a week with a
showed
it to her Princeton
tape recorder.
adviser,
Russell
Banks, he
"Instead of studying or socializ-
went nuts over the vivid, engross-
ing with friends, I found myself
ing voice and told her to "run with
obsessed with Tobe's story. Her voice
it.
took me over," says Kantor Stark, now
When Kantor Stark finished the
25. The thin, dark-haired and very
manuscript, Professor Banks gave
serious-minded author laughs when
it to his agent, who sold it to
asked if she has "an old head" that
Coffee House Press.
connected her to Tobe. Yet connected
Since graduating from
she was.
Princeton, Kantor Stark has been
Tobe's saga spanned her life in
busy. She completed her master's
Europe and her arrival in New Jersey
degree at Boston University,
after the war, where she and her hus-
taught English to 7th- and 8th-
band owned a women's dress shop.
graders at a yeshiva and wrote
Though her husband died of
two children's books and anoth-
Parkinson's disease, Tobe's focus was
er novel (currently with her
on deaths that•occurred half a century
agent).
before.
She authored two plays,
Like in Sophie Choice, Tobe was
Naomi and Ruth and David,
haunted by a decision she'd made dur-
based on biblical stories, which
ing the war.
are being produced in
As rendered in Bring Us The Old
Vermont.
People, the narrator, Maime, says:
Recently married to her
"The rest of my family what was still
Princeton classmate, Adam
Stark, an investment banker,
Susan Shapiro recently completed a
they hired a private Jeep to
comic novel, "Tangle.''
take them through the Galilee while
touring Israel on their honeymoon.
The couple recently moved to
Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Their daughter's achievements don't
surprise her parents, who live in
Aberdeen, N.J. Her father is a profes-
sor of sociology and her mother is a
math teacher. Kantor Stark says she
grew up in a Modern Orthodox
home, "surrounded by books." She
went to Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva 4
and Hillel High School.
"I always liked to write," she says.
"My parents would buy me blank
books and I'd fill them with poems
and stories in the tree house in our
back yard, book after book."
Since nobody in her family was
directly involved with the Holocaust,
she isn't quite sure where her intense
attachment to Tobe came from. "She •
felt a compulsion to tell me her story.
Then I needed to tell it, too," Kantor
.
Stark says.
In a poetic twist, her sister, Beth, a
student at Princeton, has taken over
Marisa's volunteer work at the same
nursing home, where Tobe's health has
been failing.
"I don't think Tobe realizes Beth
isn't me," Kantor Stark says. ❑
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