Wisdom Project | Joseph Werk, 97
Joseph Werk shares his story of escaping Poland during WWII and his involvement with the IDF’s volunteer service Sar-El.
Joseph Werk shares his story of escaping Poland during WWII and his involvement with the IDF’s volunteer service Sar-El.
A fortune teller predicted Morris Waitz would die in World War II. Now 100, he says he “beat that by a little bit.”
Lusia Milch, the spokeswoman for “Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated” discusses her tough survival of the Holocaust and her message for Jews to never give up their fight to eliminate antisemitism.
My aunt couldn’t stop hugging me. I didn’t remember ever having been hugged in my life. I remember thinking, “This is kind of nice.”
Confidence also comes from the people who trust you; in my case, my parents, friends, bosses, students—they had confidence in me.
My parents never spoke “Jewish” at home—they wanted their kids to be American. But the year the survivors lived with us, I learned Yiddish in teaching them English.
“There was no food, no heat. My mother scavenged for wood from bombed and abandoned houses to get heat. Eventually, the Iron Curtain closed the country. My parents felt that we had no future there. We were considered too bourgeois.”
Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1931, Erika Hassan survived the Holocaust in the mountains before emigrating to the United States in 1946.
Born in Poland in 1931, Ann Jaffe and her family survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States, where Jaffe became a determined Holocaust educator.
Dallas’s Don Stone is a gift that just keeps on giving—to the city’s schools, the arts, and, since the early 1980s, to Hebrew Union College.
Born in New York, Katz is the “uncle” of the birth control pill which catalyzed the sexual revolution and an avid sculptor.