Holocaust Remembrance Day calls on us all to pause and reflect—always, and even more so this year, as our nation faces the ongoing war and we anxiously await the return of 59 hostages still in captivity.
At Amigour, we mark this solemn day together with our residents, including many Holocaust survivors, through ceremonies held across our 56 Homes for the Elderly throughout Israel.
Today, Amigour CEO Erez Shani met with Nathan Goldman, whose story of survival as a young child in Nazi-occupied Belgium is a source of profound inspiration. Nathan was just five years old when his mother was taken to a concentration camp. Based on rumors that mothers with young children would be spared, she brought him with her to the collection point. However, the Nazis seized them both. Miraculously, a non-Jewish neighbor arrived at the scene, shouted that Nathan was her son, and managed to take him with her, saving his life. He spent the rest of the war hiding in a monastery, and was later reunited with his grandparents.
Nathan, who is 87 years old, resides at Amigour’s Shaked Home for the Elderly in Kfar Saba.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, he and Amigour CEO Erez Shani laid a wreath at the memorial honoring Alexander (Sasha) Pechersky, the heroic leader of the uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp. The memorial stands on the grounds of the Shaked Home where Nathan lives.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, he and Amigour CEO Erez Shani laid a wreath at the memorial honoring Alexander (Sasha) Pechersky, the heroic leader of the uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp. The memorial stands on the grounds of the Shaked Home where Nathan lives.
We remember. We will never forget.
