IF YOU HEARD WHAT RACHEL HEARD

RACHEL SHARES THE STORY OF HER GRANDFATHER, SYMCHA HOROWITZ, WHO WAS FROM A LARGE, LOVING FAMILY IN LODZ, POLAND. SYMCHA WAS JUST A CHILD WHEN THE NAZIS INVADED HIS TOWN. HIS FATHER, A PROMINENT FIGURE IN LODZ, WAS MURDERED BY THE NAZIS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY, AND SYMCHA AND HIS FAMILY WERE CONFINED TO THE LODZ GHETTO, WHICH WAS BUILT AROUND THEIR HOME. THEIR ONCE BEAUTIFUL LIVES, INTEGRATED INTO LODZ, WERE REDUCED TO HORRIFYING CONDITIONS, BECOMING SECLUDED FROM SOCIETY IN THE GHETTO. SYMCHA WAS SENT TO AUSCHWITZ WHERE WAS PUT IN FORCED LABOR, AND MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVED UNIMAGINABLE CONDITIONS AND A DEATH MARCH BEFORE BEING LIBERATED. ROBBED OF HIS CHILDHOOD AND HIS EDUCATION, HE DIDN’T LET THAT STAND IN THE WAY OF REBUILDING HIS LIFE. HE IMMIGRATED TO ISRAEL AND IMMEDIATELY JOINED THE FIGHT FOR ISRAEL’S INDEPENDENCE, BECOMING A VALUED MEMBER OF THE ISRAELI ARMY. HE MET AND MARRIED HIS WIFE, ALSO A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, AND THE TWO OF THEM BUILT A BEAUTIFUL LIFE, AND A FAMILY THAT CONTINUES TO GROW AND THRIVE TODAY.

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