I figure after a gut-wrenching week we could all use an uplifting story.
As a young woman Shoshana Ovitz watched in horror on the ramp at Auschwitz as Dr. Josef Mengele “selected” her mother and father for the gas chamber. The Nazis murdered more than 1.1 million people — mostly Jews — at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Shoshana was one of only 7,000 survivors. After liberation by the Soviet Red Army, she eventually made her way to Israel, married, and had four children.
Recently, to celebrate her 104th birthday, Shoshana Ovitz requested that all her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren etc, join her at the Kosel. Hundreds of her descendants gathered at the Kotel (Wailing Wall) to recite Tehillim, and wish her well.
And so they came- from all corners of the world. All 400 of them.