Remembering the Bough of Summer and the Winter Branch
Cole, Sylvia
This is a woman's frank, uninhibited personal story played
out against the backdrop of the major world events of the
20th Century.
Sylvia Cole was born on the Lower East Side to Jewish immigrants
from Austria-Poland. By the age of six, she was living with her
maternal grandparents, her parents having come down with
tuberculosis as a result of the Spanish flu of 1918. The entire
nuclear family was dispersed: her parents in a sanita...