Son of two Holocaust Survivors

Tells remarkable story of his parents' resilience and hope

Sam is the son of two Holocaust Survivors. Sam reverently shares their remarkable story of resilience and hope.

His mother, Mania, was 14 when the Nazis invaded Poland and was present when they took her parents and youngest brother. She survived 7 labor camps in the Auschwitz complex. She endured crushing loss yet lived to 89 and enjoyed 60 years of marriage and the arrivals of 3 children and 6 grandchildren.

His father, Leo, was 18 when he was taken to a series of slave labor camps, where he spent his "college years." He survived 5 years in those labor camps, 3 cardiac bypass surgeries over 30 years, and lived into his 80s, long enough to see all of his 6 grandchildren born. He gratefully wrote in a letter to his first grandchild, asking her and his other grandchildren to never forget what their family went through, "The Nazis burned the trees but they couldn't kill the roots."

Sam lives in Tenafly, NJ with his wife, Susan, a law school classmate. They have two boys, Max and Lee, each of whom have made Mania and Leo very proud.

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

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