leader, who organized the
event at 1894 Flatbush Ave.
“It went beautifully,” said
Mark Appel. “We only have
40,000 survivors left in New
York State, so its important
to do things like this, particularly
with everything going on
today.”
One speaker, Werner Reich,
told the audience of his
11-month stay in a Czechoslovakian
concentration camp,
before he was transferred to
Auschwitz, and eventually liberated
by American forces.
Sally Frishberg gave attendees
a harrowing account
of her two-year hideaway in
an attic in Poland as Nazi
forces pillaged the country,
before she reached a ship that
took her to the United States,
and Freedom.
Brooklynites gathered in Flatlands
for a “Night of Remembrance”
on May 30, listening
to the heart-wrenching stories
of Holocaust survivors.
Hosted by the Bridge Multicultural
Advocacy Project, the
ceremony brought together
140 Kings County residents of
all faiths for a solemn night
of refl ection, said the group’s
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SOLEMN CEREMONY: Holocaust survivors pose with the Fort Hamilton
High School Tiger Battalion ROTC Color Guard (left). Holocaust survivor
Sally Frishberg poses with her honorary plaque. Photo By Steve Solomonson
A night to remember
Frishberg offered a story
of how, aboard the ship, she
found comfort in the arms of a
woman she did not know.
“I suddenly realized that
somebody cares,” said Frishberg.
“She was a black American.
I was a child — a European
Jew. But there was, I
think, this understanding of
human need.”
Appel said events like these
remind us of our need to understand
our common humanity.
“In order to understand
how to get along with different
communities, we have to be
alert to any rhetoric against
any community, from Jewish
people, gay people, black people,
whoever,” he said.