ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I consider the collapse of the home and relationships as seen in two Holocaust Yiddish short stories. By focusing on a close analytical reading of Rokhl Korn’s short story “The End of the Road” (1957) and Frume Halpern’s short story “Dog Blood” (1963), my fourth chapter examines the role of the Nazis’ assault on the home, relationships, family, and memory as portrayed in two Yiddish Holocaust short stories. These short stories lend themselves as literary accounts, literary witnesses of life during the anti-world. More specifically, with their parallel settings, these two short stories, which were originally written in Yiddish (a language that was almost completely eradicated during the Holocaust in the mass murder of the Yiddish-speaking population of Europe), portray the extent to which the Nazis sought to destroy the home and family structure of the Jewish people of Europe.
