“All Jews must die!” was the scream of the murderer at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last week. To the ears of a Holocaust survivor like myself, such words initiate a slide show of images lived and never forgotten. For me, it is the sight of the burning hospital for infectious diseases in the Kovno Ghetto, Lithuania, in 1941, after the Nazis locked patients, nurses, and a doctor inside, and poured fuel on the wooden building.
Read MoreFor almost all of his 89 years, Elly Gotz of Toronto has looked up at the sky and imagined what it would be like to be able to fly. Now, after his first parachute jump, he knows.
To this day, his wife Esme says, he constantly marvels at birds in the sky. "'Look at them. Aren't they having a good time? Wouldn't it be wonderful to be a bird?'" she quotes him as saying.
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