It's funny because as a young Jewish girl in Job Function Email Database America, my friend's grandparents were Holocaust survivors. I don't recall any family with at least one grandparent who didn't have a number on their arm. My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor from Germany and I remember sleeping my grandfather Job Function Email Database used to tell me stories of how he miraculously survived the war and how his family was killed. But what I didn't realize was that not all Holocaust survivors were as successful as my grandfather and my friend's grandparents were. Those who were physically, emotionally, and spiritually privileged and Job Function Email Database strong enough to resettle and start a new life after the war.
What I have seen living in Israel Job Function Email Database and traveling to the former Soviet Union multiple times a year is that my grandparents were not the norm. Moving to New York, moving to Chicago, someone who has the ability to start a new family, live a normal life, and raise the next generation of Jewish leaders, is Job Function Email Database actually rare. So many Holocaust survivors fell into depression and were really scared that anyone would know they were Jewish because it was the death penalty. In fact, they were associated Job Function Email Database with a synagogue, and the Nazis got the list and killed the entire community. So many Holocaust survivors, the really weakest, orphans, saw their entire families shot before their eyes.
I remember meeting a woman Job Function Email Database named Olga in Ukraine, and she remembered that her neighbor had four children, she was close to her, and the Nazis came and shut their house and burned it down. She watched all her neighbors burn to death. These people cannot start over. They just can't do it. So they moved to these Job Function Email Database small villages in Ukraine, Russia or all over the former Soviet Union. They live their lives growing their own vegetables, chopping wood, not connected to any Jewish Job Function Email Database community, and really living off what little they have. But now they're 80, they're 90.