Continuing the research this month. My tr
ip to the USHMM was productive and the stacks of books are dwindling, although research has generated some new books to read so the stacks have gotten a little shorter. I had hoped to get them down to nothing by the end of the year, but it looks like research will spill over into January. Meanwhile, I’m still finding useful details in the research which has yielded about a dozen pages of notes so far.
Got a new story workshopped earlier this month, it still needs some work, but there’s a little hope for it to get into submissions sometime in the new year.
Only two rejections this month, form rejections for poems (including one very old submission which I was wondering if I should give up on), which is not surprising given my low submission activity this year.
at the USHMM research center for more primary source research. I’ve been adding occasional new reading to the stacks of books which will be evident to those closely inspecting the pictures accompanying these posts. I had hoped to be done with research reading by year’s end, but I suspect it’s going to spill over into January. I still keep stumbling across useful reading, most notably Half-American by Matthew F. Delmont which is the book on non-combat African-American soldiers in World War II I’ve wanted for at least a year or two and that was just published a couple weeks ago.![Grave stone for Donard [sic] Hosek, 1940–1940 [sic]](https://www.dahosek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/50412533_1505091760.jpg "50412533_1505091760.jpg")
this year. I was expecting it to stay low, but the extra six years will be welcome. I think the fact that I’m losing weight probably helps a bit. 
a PhD thesis courtesy of the exhaustive index at the USHMM website that is almost exactly what I would have wanted to read at the start of this process. I am definitely going to do a research trip to DC in November to visit the research center of the USHMM. Meanwhile, I’m writing this at the Regenstein library of the University of Chicago where I’m watching survivor testimonies in hopes of finding some good background material.
h as it’s all-research time for the novel. I’ve managed to get eight of the books from my leftover research stack finished as well as going through ten survivor testimonies from the Yad Vashem website that had transcripts (there’s no way I would be able to follow spoken Hebrew with my limited language skills). I’m currently digging through resources from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to find what’s available online and what would require a trip to D.C. to decide whether a research trip would be worthwhile.