{"id":1020,"date":"2021-06-08T16:37:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2021-06-08T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:37:05","slug":"notwithstanding-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/08\/notwithstanding-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTWITHSTANDING THE HOLOCAUST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Courtesy: Gary Mokotoff)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, I had to attend a funeral this past weekend. The memorial service was held at a synagogue. When I entered the building I noticed a large framed color photograph of an elderly woman holding a very young baby. The woman had a magnificent smile on her face; clearly a great-grandmother proudly holding a fourth-generation member of her family. It struck me as unusual that such a picture would be in a synagogue. A more appropriate place would have been in the family\u2019s home, but as I approached the picture its significance became apparent. On the woman\u2019s arm was tattooed a number. The family, descendants of this Holocaust survivor, refer to the picture as \u201cAm Yisroel Chai.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/imagens\/am_israel_chai.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo courtesy of William H. Donat<br>A framed copy of the photo is located at the Woodlands Community Temple in White Plains, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Courtesy: Gary Mokotoff) Unfortunately, I had to attend a funeral this past weekend. The memorial service was held at a synagogue. When I entered the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}