On Yom HaShoah please remember the life of Esther Ferstenfeld. Esther died at Birkenau in the fall of 1942. She was only 16 years old. May her life be bound for eternity with the bonds of life she created in her own time and in our time as we remember her. May her memory always …
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Apr 09
A personal pre-trip reflection
Studying the Holocaust has a personal significance for me. My father, John Chapman, was a U.S. Army medic during World War II. He was a member of the 120th EVAC Hospital unit attached to General Patton’s 3rd Army. What makes this significant is he was part of the American forces that liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp …