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raising my kids as a single mom say, ‘If
you were really a good mother, you would
get a real job,’” Arndts said. “I tried to
keep the best of both worlds, family and
music.” Some of her music is rooted in anger
derived from her Jewish inheritance.

Her father, Leonard Goldman, was born
in Philadelphia to Russian Jews who
immigrated to escape the pogroms. Her
mother, Faye Cukier, is a German Jew of
Polish decent who survived the Holocaust
by hiding in Belgium.

“It’s a part of who I am, the pain of
being a daughter of a Holocaust survi-
vor,” Arndts said. “I don’t want to sound
whiny, but when you grow up with a
Holocaust survivor, it’s diff erent, even
from other American Jews. Something
was taken away from them, and my
mother just wants to live every moment.

It’s almost like she forgave, and I held on
to the anger. So it’s therapeutic to release
(it) creatively.”
Cukier retold her story of survival
in her 2006 autobiography, “Fleeing the
Swastika.” Th e book was the focus of an
article published by German news broad-
caster Deutsche Welle. Cukier’s parents
immigrated to Cologne, Germany, in
1919 where she was born a few years later.

Th ere her father made a decent living as a
scrap-metal dealer.

In 1938, Cukier and her mother
traveled to Belgian on tourist visas, only a
few months prior to Kristallnacht. Cukier
and her mother settled in Brussels where
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