IF YOU HEARD WHAT JENNIFER + SARAH HEARD

JENNIFER + SARAH SHARE THE STORY OF THEIR GRANDMOTHER EDITH MEYER, WHO WAS LIVING IN ESSEN, GERMANY IN 1933 WHEN HITLER CAME TO POWER. SHE LIVED IN ESSEN WITH HER PARENTS AND BROTHER, AND SPOKE WITH JENNIFER AND SARAH ABOUT THE RISING ANTISEMITISM IN HER TOWN. SHE SHARED THAT NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS WOULD NO LONGER SPEAK TO HER AND HER FAMILY BECAUSE THEY WERE JEWISH. EDITH’S FAMILY FELT THE EFFECTS OF ANTISEMITISM AS JEWISH BUSINESSES WERE CLOSED AND BOYCOTTED, AND THEIR DAILY LIVES BECAME MORE AND MORE RESTRICTIVE. BY 1938 EDITH AND HER FAMILY MANAGED TO GET PAPERS AND ESCAPE GERMANY, FLEEING TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD IN ORDER TO GET OUT AS QUICKLY AND SAFELY AS POSSIBLE. EDITH TRAVELED ALONE, BY BOAT, TO LOS ANGELES WHERE AN AUNT HELPED HER SETTLE IN AND REBUILD HER LIFE - A LIFE SHE LOOKED FORWARD TO AND MET WITH GRATITUDE AND OPTIMISM AFTER ESCAPING GERMANY. SHE MET AND MARRIED EDWARD MEYER, WHO WAS ALSO A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR. TOGETHER, THEY BUILT A BEAUTIFUL LIFE, AND A CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY THAT CONTINUES TO GROW, THRIVE, AND UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF JUDAISM TODAY.

IF YOU HEARD WHAT JENNIFER AND SARAH HEARD, YOU WOULD NEVER FORGET.