[A related story appears in the current issue of Bostonia, the monthly alumni publication of Boston University, where I graduated from in 1981. I posted an online comment there, which I’ve copied-and-pasted below.] Thanks for a very powerful story; it’s also refreshing to read about Israel in a positive light. In what is now Ukraine, my maternal grandfather lost his first wife and two daughters in a Pogrom on February 18, 1919 in the town of Felshtin. In addition to a baby son, my Zayda miraculously survived, married my grandmother later that year and subsequently had two more daughters–including my… Read more »
[A related story appears in the current issue of Bostonia, the monthly alumni publication of Boston University, where I graduated from in 1981. I posted an online comment there, which I’ve copied-and-pasted below.] Thanks for a very powerful story; it’s also refreshing to read about Israel in a positive light. In what is now Ukraine, my maternal grandfather lost his first wife and two daughters in a Pogrom on February 18, 1919 in the town of Felshtin. In addition to a baby son, my Zayda miraculously survived, married my grandmother later that year and subsequently had two more daughters–including my… Read more »