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I don’t typically point out high school graduations in this blog, but a very special student received his degree this month and I have to wish him an equally special “mazel tov.” Howard Chandler began his schooling in Poland but his education was interrupted in fourth grade when the Nazis invaded his country and eventually [...]  As waiters rushed out orders of hot wonton soup, some of the guests clapped along to the violinist playing upbeat Jewish music, while others were lost in conversations about their children, their daily lives, and the Chinese feast before them. For the 100-some Holocaust survivors gathered at Brooklyn’s Shang Chai restaurant earlier this month for [...] In January 1943, the residents of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland began their infamous, ill-fated revolt against their Nazi occupiers. Within a few months, the Nazis had crushed the resistance and many survivors of the ghetto were sent to the Majdanek death camp in Lublin. Between April and May of 1943, 15,000 Jews were marched [...] With the advent of Rosh Hashanah, many of us contemplate our past actions and look back on what could have been done differently. I’d like to share with you the story of one family’s long-past deed that, thankfully, was not done differently and has been recorded for history before it became too late. In May 1943, a [...] At the age of 14, Berta Nisim Levi-Vladimirova was sent to work on vegetable plantations, at a can factory, and at a brick factory in Vidin, Bulgaria. Each day Berta and other Jews were escorted to work by the police and escorted home at the end of the day. Sometimes, though, the police would not [...] |
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