Edith Szmukler Schlesinger
Despite her losses and her wartime experiences, Edith had a tremendous optimism about the world. She lived her final days at Newbridge on the Charles and came to TBE often. We miss her every day.
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Zoltan Mathe
On October 17, 1944, a gang of heavily armed youth with an armband of their movement burst into our yellow-starred building and ordered all “dirty stinky Jews” to get down to the courtyard.
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Joe Schlesinger
One evening in fall of 1942 Joe returned to the Ghetto to find his home empty; his entire family had been taken to Treblinka.
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Max Adler and Elizabeth-Stern Adler
As WWII approached, my father and his brothers tried desperately to get their parents to flee from their country, but they delayed too long.
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Walter and Elsie Kaufmann
Walter and Elsie met in Munich and were married on Christmas Eve 1934. During the mid 1930s, as life for Jews grew increasingly intolerable, they could not imagine the horrors that were yet to come.
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Ilse Leeser
Ilse was 10 years old when her father and 2 uncles were arrested, along with 30,000 other specific German Jews of influence and wealth, on Kristallnacht.
Read more >>CELEBRATE COMMUNITY
Standing Up for Israel’s DemocracyAt this crucial time, another way to make our voices, values and support heard in Israel is to build greater connection with our Reform Movement in Israel and its efforts to promote our shared democratic and Jewish values. We want to exercise our Peoplehood with Jews in Israel and the diaspora without diminishing our love for Israel as a Jewish homeland while still objecting to actions of the Israeli government that place the Zionist dream at risk.Read the full post
