A couple of weeks ago I misspoke on the bimah when I said: “The miracle of my mother’s survival is the reason I am here today.”I should have said: The miracle of my parents’ survival is the reason I am here today.
At the time, I had been focusing on my mother and the conference I went to in Barth, Germany to celebrate 80 years of liberation so much that I missed my father’s liberation a few weeks earlier. As I have already written about my mother’s liberation in Kol Emunah (See Liberation & Rebirth in Barth), I would like to now add my father’s story to the picture.
