Tag: Holocaust
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From Warsaw ghetto to ‘joy and freedom’: Holocaust survivor caps 40-year career with Princeton Eye Group
One of Dr. Stephen Felton’s earliest childhood memories is that of standing on the deck of a ship in New York Harbor, staring at the lighting on the Statue of Liberty and watching the twinkling lights on the land. It was cold and snow was on the way, but Felton, who was 5 years old…
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Artist talks about Holocaust survivor portraits on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Like many artists, Debra Kapnek focuses on painting subjects that interest her – still life, landscapes and abstract compositions. Painting portraits of Holocaust survivors was not among her interests – until she met Seymour Meyer, a neighbor and Holocaust survivor who shared his story with her. It was the chance meeting and her developing friendship…
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North Brunswick students recall lessons learned from Holocaust survivor
NORTH BRUNSWICK – Even into her 90’s, Frida Herskovits made it her mission to tell the story of her life, making sure young people learned the lessons of the Holocaust and pledged to be kind and hopeful. Herskovits visited North Brunswick Township High School more than 20 times over 10 years and spoke to a…
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Holocaust survivor celebrates 97th birthday with new memoir
EAST BRUNSWICK–Telling his courageous journey as a Jewish teenager surviving the Holocaust and its repercussions, author Michael Kesler has written his latest book “The Remnant.” “The Remnant: On Burning Wings to a Displaced Persons Camp and Beyond” provides a poignant account of Kesler’s survival, perseverance and pursuit of a brighter future as World War II…
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Jewish Center of Princeton plants daffodils in remembrance of children killed during Holocaust
Members of The Jewish Center of Princeton gathered outside their building on April 11 for a memorial ceremony to remember the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust. The Daffodil Project is a worldwide effort to remember the children of the Holocaust by planting 1.5 million daffodils around the world, one for each child…
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More than 200 Holocaust survivors in Middlesex County can receive assistance from national partnership
As the pandemic approaches its year mark, Holocaust survivors across the United States continue to face new and renewed daily struggles. COVID-19 has only further exacerbated and enhanced the challenges that this vulnerable population faces, according to KAVOD SHEF (Survivors of the Holocaust Emergency Fund). Health and safety protocols have heightened social isolation for survivors.…
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Holocaust survivor receives celebratory parade on anniversary of liberation
PHOTO COURTESY OF JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES Joseph Farkas, a Jewish Family Services CAMEO (senior congregate meal) client and Holocaust survivor, was celebrated with a parade on the anniversary of his liberation from Dachau, which coincides with Israel’s Independence Day on April 29.
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Holocaust survivor celebrates 100th birthday with friends at Jewish Family Services of Middlesex County
Holocaust survivor Herbert Goldsmith celebrated his 100th birthday in early January. with staff and board members of Jewish Family Services of Middlesex County in Monroe, members of the Holocaust survivor program Cafe Europa, and Lisa Adler from the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey. In related news, Café Europa, a program for Holocaust…
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Rabbi shares his story as a child of the Holocaust in Monroe
MONROE – When Peter H. Grumbacher was growing up in the 1950s in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, the atrocities of the Holocaust was the cloud, the “elephant in the room” so to speak. It was a topic Grumbacher, as a curious young child, got dismissed time and time again through a…
