IF YOU HEARD WHAT MICHAL HEARD

MICHAL SHARES THE STORY OF HER GRANDFATHER, ZVI ABRAMOVICH, WHO WAS FROM A BIG, EXTENDED FAMILY IN LODZ, POLAND. HE LIVED A HAPPY LIFE UNTIL THE NAZIS INVADED HIS TOWN AND EVERYTHING CHANGED. JEWS IN HIS TOWN AND HIS FAMILY WERE SUBJECT TO BRUTALITY AND ANTISEMITISM AT THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS. THEY WERE FORCED INTO THE LODZ GHETTO WHERE CONDITIONS WERE INHUMANE. AS A RESULT, ZVI’S PARENTS BOTH DIED IN THE GHETTO AND HE, AND HIS TWO SISTERS WERE ORPHANED AT A YOUNG AGE. THEY WERE TAKEN TO AUSCHWITZ WHERE ZVI WAS SEPARATED FROM HIS SISTERS AND SENT INTO FORCED LABOR. AFTER SURVIVING THE HORRORS OF AUSCHWITZ, A DEATH MARCH, AND MAUTHAUSEN HE WAS FINALLY LIBERATED. HE WENT TO A DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP, AND WAS THEN SENT TO ITALY TO RECOVER FROM MALNOURISHMENT AND THE AFFECTS OF WHAT HE SURVIVED. HE IMMIGRATED TO ISRAEL WHERE HE MET HIS WIFE, ALSO A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, AND TOGETHER THEY WERE A PART OF BUILDING ISRAEL INTO WHAT IT IS TODAY, REBUILDING THEIR LIVES, AND CREATING A FAMILY THAT CONTINUES TO GROW AND THRIVE TODAY.

IF YOU HEARD WHAT MICHAL HEARD, YOU WOULD NEVER FORGET.