Courage is what others can't see, what is never affirmed.
It is made of what you have thrown away and then come back for.
It is made of what you have thrown away and then come back for.
- Leonard Cohn


















By Her Hand bears witness and pays homage to Ellen’s immigrant family legacy. Her mother was a holocaust survivor who, on liberation from one of the most barbarous of the Nazi extermination centers, forged a new and remarkably normal life from the meager remnants of her familial past.