About "They Clasp My Hand"

"In artfully fragmented poetic speech, her verses deal with the once widespread family, with the murder of the grandmothers during the Holocaust that is still alive, with the traumatization of the survivors. With her outrage and rebellion, she claims unmistakable subjectivity. We hear a strong voice from New York. " - Konstantin Kaiser

“The New York-based psychiatrist, poet and artist Elisabeth Frischauf (www.elisabethfrischauf.com) moves in her poems through her refugee childhood and youth with images of murdered relatives during the Holocaust and leads us into her world in the heart of New York.,“ Veronika Zwerger, Director, Austrian Exile Library.

They clasp my hand" poems in English and in translation into German by Ernst Karner has been published in the series of poetry Nadelstiche by the Theodor Kramer Society.