Holocaust Survivors Welcome German Consul General to Brooklyn Gathering
Brooklyn, NY – On Tuesday, June 7, hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Brooklyn welcomed Hon. David Gill, Germany’s Consul General in New York at a socialization event hosted by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island (JCCGCI), under funding provided by the German government and administered by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (“Claims Conference”). The event, a monthly gathering known [...]
Ruth Mermelstein Story
Shaved bald, dressed in rags, and tattooed with a number, prisoners tried to hold on to a sense of identity and dignity. Like most women prisoners, sixteen-year-old Ruth Grunberger agonized over the loss of her hair. Secreting metal fragments from her work in a factory, she fashioned a small comb—a promise of a future day when, once again, she [...]
