How Does a Holocaust Survivor Dance? There is a Hebrew word for this. Nitzachon. Laughing. Dancing. Fully alive. Victory. Not the victory of armies, but the victory of life over those who tried to destroy it.
This dance is that victory.
In the Warsaw Ghetto, where nearly 400,000 Jews were packed into 1.3 square miles, where the official ration was 184 calories a day, where bodies lay in the streets each morning waiting to be collected—
there was a man who made people laugh.
Nobody knew his first name.
Some said Moishele.
Others said Itzik.
Most…