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Precious Holocaust Survivor

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Leah knows what it means to be hungry. She’s a Holocaust Survivor from Ukraine, and she remembers the daily struggle for food in the Nazi ghettos.

Leah explained, “My mother and I were forced to clean all day for the Nazis. Sometimes they would give us a little piece of bread that we tried to share with my 5-year-old brother, but it was never enough.”

Leah’s father went to the front with the Red Army just before the Nazi invasion, leaving Leah’s mother to take care of their two children on her own.

“One day, the Nazis began rounding up people and accusing them of helping the local resistance. They beat my mother and dragged her off.  Then they shot her to death with 250 others,” recalled Leah.

Her father was killed in the war, but Leah and her brother survived to see liberation. Years later, she immigrated to Nazareth, Israel. Leah is now a widow who lives in poverty, with the recurring memories of her lost family.  

Leah said, “Both my mother and father were killed by the Nazis. I used to cry all the time, but now I can’t cry anymore.”

CBN Israel often visits Leah to bring her food and spend time with her. When we learned she was having trouble getting around, we gave her a new walker.

“Thank you very much for the wonderful food and the lovely walker,” said Leah. “It gives me the freedom to go out more and feel better.”

Thanks to CBN donors, Leah and other Holocaust Survivors in Israel won’t have to experience the pain of hunger again.

Leah said, “It means so much to know that you remember us and care about us. May God bless you.”

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Isaac Gwin
Isaac
Gwin

Isaac Gwin joined Operation Blessing in 2013 as a National Media Liaison producing domestic hunger relief stories. He then moved to Israel in 2015 where he spent the next six years as a CBN Features Producer developing stories throughout the Middle East. Now back in the U.S., Isaac continues to produce inspiring, true life stories for The 700 Club.