(Lei Jung's words remembered by Mary Auyeung)


Recuerdo que toda la familia nació en Rivington. Allí nació mi hijo, pero perdí dos otros. Dios me los dió, el me los quitó. Dios, te doy las gracias por darme el valor. (Leocadia Gomez)


Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the lord my soul to take
(remembered by Leslie Duché and Christina Walton)


I dreamt there was a flood in the Lower East Side, and sharks were swimming around the buildings and apartments. (Rosana Peña)

(remembered by Eva Tam)

I believe upon leaving this physical world, we enter a spiritual world, heaven or hell, based on how good or bad the physical body performed in this world. (Rabbi Jacob Speigel).

(anonymous Jewish Senior)



This is not the place I dreamt of before I came. (Du Mei Zhou)


Mi mamá dice que cuando duermo el alma se me sale del cuerpo y se va a momentos en el futuro. Luego, cuando ese futuro es ya presente, me doy cuenta que para mi ha pasado que ya lo he vivido. (Rosana Peña)


I remember when there was no fear of the night. (Betty Strear)


Beautiful as the moon, bright as the stars, you were sent to me as a gift from heaven. (Charlotte Rick)


I remember dreaming once that I was riding in a school bus on a long narrow road, then suddenly the road became the roof of a building and the bus fell off of it. (Marcos Martinez)


Once there is a fire in your house, your life will never be the same. (Wei Feng Li)


Angel de mi guardia, dulce compañía, no me desampare ni de noche ni de día. No me deje sola que me perdería. (Fiordaliza Marte)


I wish to live forever and to give eternal life to others. (Kashid Thomas)

(Chua Kum Me)
I dreamt there was a flood in the Lower East Side, and sharks were swimming around the buildings and apartments. (Rosana Peña)

(Allen Greenberg)


All my family was born on Rivington Street. My son was born here but I lost two others. God gave me, he took from me. I give you thanks, God, for giving me the strength. (Leocadia Gomez)


I've been wandering so long, constantly changing places as one would change clothes. I'm leaving now, but I remember my past as closely as tightly-sewn stitches. (anonymous Chinese senior)>


My mother tells me when I'm sleeping, my soul leaves my body and goes places in the future. Then when the future is the present, I notice, that what's happening already happened. (Rosana Pe–a)


I remember the Jewish church on Rivington. I was 17 years old when I saw it for the first time. I am 72 years old now. (Lucy Calderon)


Guardian angel, sweet companion, do not abandon me day or night. Don't leave me alone or I'll be lose my way. (Fiordaliza Marte)


If you share, the well never runs dry. (Chua Kum Me)


I remember when we lived in a tenement on the top floor in very bad condition. It was like a dream... (Rabbi Speigel's friend)