“I was coincidentally born at Mila 18,” he says. “Most of you might know that that’s where the bunker was. Ziv Lubetkin and the headquarters were located there, and that house was located inside the ghetto. That street was a street that contained 99% Jews before the war, only the servants and the housekeepers were…
There is a photograph sitting on my desk as I write this. It is from 1948, the year Israel declared itself into existence and was immediately fighting five armies for the right to keep existing.
The Arithmetic of Survival
Ten Szureks entered the war. Four survived. The math did not end there.
Miriam, Edna, and Yakov Szurek, postwar. Three siblings who survived the Holocaust on the Aryan side of Warsaw. Out of ten immediate family members, four survived.
Look at this photograph.
Three faces.
A young woman.…
