Posted on January 18, 2011
It’s not every day a Holocaust victim comes and speaks to us, said Rabbi Noam Silverman, head of Jewish studies at the Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, as he introduced 82-year-old Ellen Fletcher. “And it’s not every day a Holocaust victim comes to us on a bike, especially in the rain.” With that, more than 100 middle-school students grinned and welcomed the former “kindertransport kid,” one of 10,000 Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany just before World War II broke out.