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I want to wish a very special “happy birthday” to Alice Herz-Sommer, who turned 108 last week. According to JTA, Alice is the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor. A professional pianist since she was a teenager growing up in Prague, Alice was sent to Terezin in 1943 with her husband and young son. There, she played [...]  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 [...] 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 [...] Like many students, Michael Gruenbaum had a part-time job in college. To earn spending money while studying at MIT in the early 1950s, he worked at the school’s Lewis Music Library for 90 cents an hour. But while most other students came to MIT after four years of high school, Mr. Gruenbaum came to MIT [...] Lev and Bronislava Friedman don’t remember much from their experiences during the Holocaust, as both were young children in the Soviet Union whose families fled ahead of the advancing Nazi army. But they do remember being cold, hungry, and fearful of what the future could bring. Bronislava was born in Uman, Ukraine, in 1937. In 1941, Bronislava’s [...] |
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