2024-01-25 07:11:49
Miriam: “I live the holocaust every day, for almost ninety years now, the murder and massacre they did to the Jews during Simchat Torah flooded me all over again. From the age of five I have lived between the wars, the cruelty of the new Nazis and their abuse of the Jews is extremely terrible.”
Since the massacre, Miriam faces every day anew the floating and resurfacing memories of the Holocaust.
Miriam Shlesser, a Holocaust survivor from Afula, the heroine of the children’s book, “Pafosha”, misses her husband, Yona, the boy from Auschwitz, who died five years ago.
During these difficult days, Miriam is unable to close an eye, the nightmares are coming, hitting her mercilessly.
Since the massacre, she has been gripped by fear, “All the doors in my house are locked, everything is locked, the ultra-Orthodox doors, the balcony, the kitchen, I close the blinds, draw the curtains, fear enters my life.
What we are going through in the last few months is a holocaust, I think of Jonah who carried his sick and weak brother Isaac on his back, during the death march Isaac fell, Jonah could not stop to pick him up, Jonah knew that the Germans shot him to death, the new Nazis not only shot and killed They abused the bodies, raped, murdered, butchered, butchered, burned babies, committed a pogrom like the pogrom I saw as a five-year-old girl in the city of Iasi in Romania
In the last months, every day I go back, I go back every day to the terrible days of the Holocaust.”
Miriam, mother of Itzik and Dita, grandmother of eight grandchildren and great grandmother of three great-grandchildren.
About the story of her life as a child during the holocaust, the writer Emanuel Ben Sabo wrote the children’s book, “Papusha”, and the story of a woman, Yona, the story of the boy from Auschwitz, “Achi”.
Yona Shliser, the late boy from Auschwitz.
Photo: Talia Ben Sabo
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