From one Generation to the Next: Unbroken Resilience

The Golden Age, during which Jews experienced peace, serenity, and prosperity in Poland, ended in 1939 with the Nazi invasion. Of the millions of Jews who had lived in large cities and in shtetls of Poland and the neighboring Soviet Republic of Ukraine, only about 10% would survive the Shoah. The Nazi regime, abetted by Ukrainian Nationalists, were efficient in murdering Jews using mobile killing units, incarceration in concentration and extermination camps, and in the many ghettos that had...