A pair of ski boots helped save Gerda Weissmann's life. Gerda was born 100 years ago #OnThisDay . She was the only member of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust.
“[She] cared about me ... like her own children.”
Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto as a baby and adopted by Elena and Kipras Petrauskas. When reunited with her birth parents, she still called both sets of parents mother and father. #FosterCareMonth
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we held an event at the media center of the Friends of Zion Museum discussing the rise of Antisemitism in the world and at universities in the USA since the events of October 7.
#Antisemitism
#STANDWITHISRAEL