Could you help Gift of Life in our efforts to find a life-saving bone marrow donor for the little girl pictured on the attached flyer, and for many other patients whose lives depend on a transplant from a healthy donor?

I know that most of the entries on Solomonia are political, but, as you have seen from my correspondence with various fans, there is an important historical and demographic dimension to our work. You know the numbers: We are 13 million on a planet which numbers its population in the Billions. The six million slaughtered during the Holocaust translates into one third of our gene pool. They were killed before they could have children, grandchildren, all the generations that might have come after them. As a result, we need each other perhaps more than any other group on Earth.

It would be wonderful if you could post the flyer on Solomonia and encourage your friends and contacts to come to Harvard Street to sign up and maybe someday save a life.

Thanks so much,
Louise

PS In these days of intermarriage outnumbering in-marriage, the task of finding matches is even more complicated. Jewish haplotypes (dna markers) show up in patients who may never even have thought of themselves as Jewish, and we have had many patients whose family escaped murder in Europe by converting or pretending to convert to other religions. You never know who might be a match, and we welcome prospective donors of any ethnic background. We are also happy to help patients of any background to find their miracle matches!