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Sunday 4 March 2018

TSWI JOSEF HERSCHEL STORY


I CAN IDENTIFY WITH THIS STORY AS MY DEAR TIKWAH A.H. PARENTS WERE MARRIED AND HAD A TWO AND A HALF YEAR OLD SON, WHEN THE GERMANS ENTERED HOLLAND.

MY PARENTS IN LAW MR AND MRS SEYFFERS WENT IN TO HIDING AND SURVIVED THE WAR, AND HAD A BOY AND A GIRL AFTER THE WAR.

BUT THEY COULD NOT TAKE THE CHILD WITH THEM AND GAVE HIM TO A NON JEWISH FAMILY FOR TWO AND HALF YEARS, THEY GOT HIM BACK AFTER THE WAR, BUT HE KEEPS ABSOLUTELY NOTING, AND DOES NOT WANT TO KEEP YIDDISHKEIT.

RABBI ITZIKEL FROM ANTWERP SAID TO MY FATHER IN LAW, HE IS A SACRIFICE FROM THE WAR, AND BLESSED HIM THAT THE CHILDREN AFTER THE WAR WILL BE RELIGIOUS.

      


2 comments:

Malka Batsheva said...

Thanks for posting, it was so special.

Rabbi Gaby Lock said...

MY PARENTS IN LAW WERE MR AND MRS SEYFFERS FROM ROTTERDAM HOLLAND HE WAS A CHAZAN IN ROTTERDAM AND A TRAVELING TEACHER, WHO BROUGHT LOTS OF CHILDREN TO BE FRUM AFTER THE WAR.
BUT SADLY HE COULD NOT BRING THIS SON BACK TO YIDDISHKEIT, HE STILL LIVES TO DAY IN AMSTERDAM HOLLAND.