A meaningful evening celebration of the lives of our survivors, remembering the countless families, friends and communities murdered in the Holocaust.
Before WWII, there were nine million Jewish people living in Europe. Only three million survived the Holocaust.
Our SBHEC family is blessed with five survivors who continually share their stories with our local community.
Survivor Andrew Andreas Algava, a Greek Jew (seen with his grandchild), hid in Salonika for 600 days during the war.Ada Winsten and her family fled Poland to Lithuania and then spent the war in a ghetto in Shanghai.Survivor Alice Eichenbaum greets fellow survivor Elizabeth Sandy. Alice survived the war in a ghetto in the countryside of Bulgaria. Elizabeth survived the war in Budapest with the help of Swiss attaché Carl Lutz.Survivor Ruth Oppenheim saw her father beaten and arrested on Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938. She urged the crowd present to hope for a stable and secure Israel, “Because if there was an Israel back then, there may not have been an Auschwitz.”
