Tells the story of her husband's grandmother and family who lived in Munich, Germany.

Works with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Mindy Nagorsky-Israel is married to the son and grandson of Holocaust survivors. She tells the story of Ilse Sundheimer Seelig, her husband’s grandmother, and her family, using pictures, historical documents and artifacts that have been found. Ilse grew up in Munich, Germany, a member of multiple prominent Jewish families that had lived in various parts of Bavaria for hundreds of years. Ilse escaped Nazi Germany in late 1938, but she lost her entire immediate family and most of her extended family in the Holocaust.

Ilse did not speak about her lost family in the 68 years following the end of the war and her discovery of their fate until late 2013 when Mindy’s then 8 year old daughter asked Ilse to tell the story of her family. This discussion spurred on years of research and writing to find and document the history and fates of family members.

Mindy is currently a knowledge strategy lawyer at Skadden Arps. She earned her law degree from the University of Chicago in 1999 and a bachelor of science in economics, concentration in accounting from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts, major in psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences, both from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. She and her husband are involved with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, and with the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a living memorial to the Holocaust. Mindy and her husband Ronen Israel, a retired hedge fund portfolio manager who now teaches at Yale University, live in Purchase, New York, with their three children.

Mindy 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. She speaks to children and adults of all ages, telling Ilse's story with photos and artifacts. 

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