From my father’s story of saving Jewish children after the Holocaust I learned about the inner strength people could summon when necessary to perform what my father termed “a mitzvah” – even when they themselves were still walking skeletons only a heartbeat after their own liberation from the shadow of the valley of death.

Advertisement
1
2
3
SHARE
Previous articleLamed Vavniks Who Aren’t Afraid to Get Their Hands Dirty
Next articleA Post-Pesach Dayenu: Enough!
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is director of the Schulmann School of Basic Jewish Studies and professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is the author of, among several others, “The ‘Bergson Boys’ and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy” (Syracuse University Press); “The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945” (Purdue University Press); and “Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory” (University of Wisconsin Press).