Granddaughter and niece of Holocaust Survivors

Her story features the role of Upstanders who risked their lives to help save her grandparents.

Monica is a granddaughter and niece of Holocaust survivors. She grew up in a home where the past and the present were intertwined. "What was it like to be a granddaughter and niece to survivors?" The story she shares is of her aunt and grandmother who survived the war because of their fortitude, shrewdness and, perhaps more importantly, luck. It starts before the war, describing a large and loving family and goes through the years of the war chronicling how difficult it was to survive. The story also includes Monica's grandfather whose life and family interacted with Monica's grandmother and her family, and touches upon a few upstanders who saved Monica's grandmother's life at great expense to their own safety. It winds down to the present as she describes what it was like to be a member of a family that combined the past with the present. Could the wounds of the war be healed? Who was responsible for healing the wounds?

Monica lives in Harrison, NY with her husband and three children. Monica is a social worker who bases her social work practice on the importance of helping others. Her decision to memorialize her family's story was not only to pass along to future generations, but to ensure that the legacy of those who died does not fade. Writing the story has become not only a blessing, but an honor to ensure that our family will live on and on.

Monica is a member of GenerationsForward, a group of second and third generation individuals sponsored by the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center of White Plains, New York.

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