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(AP) — The CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes aired a powerful report Sunday night on three of the Holocaust’s youngest known survivors — all born in the final weeks of World War II to mothers who hid their pregnancies while imprisoned by the Nazis.
The broadcast recounted the extraordinary stories of Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran, and Mark Olsky, now 80, who were born in April 1945 as Nazi Germany was collapsing.
Each of their mothers became pregnant in 1944 and was deported to Auschwitz, where pregnancy meant almost certain execution. By concealing their conditions beneath loose prison garments and avoiding detection by guards, the women managed to survive long enough to be transferred to labor camps inside Germany.
As Allied forces closed in, prisoners were forced onto transports in brutal conditions. One of the babies was born during a grueling train journey. Another entered the world in a labor camp just days before liberation at Mauthausen.
The program detailed how American troops discovered starving prisoners and newborn infants when they liberated the camp in early May 1945. In one case, a U.S. Army medic helped keep a newborn alive in the chaotic aftermath.
Now octogenarians living in different countries, Clarke, Berger-Moran and Olsky have connected later in life, describing a bond forged by shared origins in one of history’s darkest chapters. Their survival — and that of their mothers — stands in stark contrast to the Nazis’ systematic attempt to eradicate Jewish families across Europe.
We Are All Jews Here –
Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day
By: Ginette Weiner, 1/27/2023
We need to pay homage to a soldier who defined bravery for all of us. In ‘’We Are All Jews Here”, Lee Habeeb, writes, “Courage,” Aristotle wrote, “is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” And courage is precisely what was on display in a German prison camp over seven decades ago, when one brave American soldier did the unthinkable: Staring down the barrel of his Nazi captor’s pistol, he refused to identify which of his fellow prisoners of war were Jewish. His act of defiance would save nearly 200 Jews and earn him, posthumously, the Righteous Among Nations Award. Only five Americans have earned the distinction. Only one was a soldier. His name was Master Sergeant Roderick “Roddie” Edmonds…”
Today, acts of courage are being replaced by the Brown Shirt thuggery of attacks on Jews in our streets. We witnessed, in Los Angeles: “several cars stopped, men got out, began running toward the tables and asking “Who’s Jewish?”; some people from the caravan threw bottles and chanted “death to Jews” and “free Palestine.”
In NYC, yet another Jew hate beating sends Jewish man to the hospital. Lee Kern, “Tell me anti Zionism is not anti-Semitism. I dare you…“There is a pogrom against Jews taking place – perpetrated by a cult of anti-Semitism within Palestinian advocacy – and whose anti-Semitic narratives are being adopted by the media, celebrities, social justice movements.”
We all recall with horror, Entebbe, 1976, “The flight was en route from Tel Aviv to Paris where four hijackers slipped on board, it was commandeered and diverted to Entebbe. The four hijackers were joined by several others there. Separating out Jewish passengers, both Israeli citizens and non-Israelis, after removing all passengers and crew from the plane, the hijackers freed 148 non-Jews over the course of several days and kept about 100 Jewish passengers and crew members, threatening to kill them if their demands were not met.”
It is time for everyone to stand up and say “We Are All Jews Here.” Every town hall, Congress, every place of government, every mayor, governor, President Biden, every place where people gather, every house of worship, every mosque, church, it is time for all to stand up and say “We are all Jews here.” This is not about Israel. How many dead Jews will it take for the world to stand up and say “We are all Jews here.”
https://tjvnews.com/torah/jewish-thought/we-are-all-jews-here-intl-holocaust-remembrance-day/