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Freida Sima in April 1984, two months before she passed away.

Recently, members of the third and even fourth generation of Scharf and Eisenberg descendants have joined, hopefully ensuring its continuation. In the twenty-first century, Freida Sima’s dreams of reuniting her family have taken a different turn, but that same family feeling among the cousins is still there.

It is to them that I have dedicated this series, with love. It is my story, it is their story, and above all it is Freida Sima’s story.

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How this series came about is a story in itself, worthy of its own installment next month.

 

This installment of the Freida Sima series is dedicated to the memory of Freida Sima’s husband, Max (Mordechai Yitzchak ben Avraham) Kraus, whose yahrzeit is Tishrei 18, which this year fell on October 20.

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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).

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