https://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=32479 Newest articles written by Judy Landman Copyright 2026, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. Mon, 01 Jan, 0001 12:00:00 EST Mon, 01 Jan 0001 12:00:00 EST https://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=6587966 https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/6587966/jewish/The-Hospital-Where-the-Nazis-Almost-Killed-My-Mother.htm I used to be the apple of my father’s eye. For nearly the first five years of my life, he called me his sunshine and I was the center of his life. My father was a Holocaust survivor, having entered the gates of Auschwitz at the age of 15, seeing his beloved mother ripped away from him along with his brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews. With many miracles, he survived and slowly started a new life as a scarred young man on American soil. He married my mother—a war baby, may she live and be well—later in life, and they began to build their own family with hope and joy and healing. I was born first and named for his holy mother, whose last words to her son were, “Never forget that you are a Jew and where you come from.” My brother, named after my mother’s father, who was also murdered in the Holocaust, joined our family shortly after. And then, on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, during a visit to Hungary, my father died from a sudden heart attack. Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:00:00 EST