New Jen's Horde


Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Changed my mind

 
I was going to come in and post about the irony of having to call my neurologist to get directions to her office (because I forgot the way to my brain doctor's, get it? Har!)

But, then I saw this, and really nothing else seemed worth talking about today.

When Gizela Burg arrived in Israel after making it out of four Nazi concentration camps alive, she thought her problems of survival were behind her. But now, at the age of 83, she can no longer afford to pay her growing medical bills.

Burg is among about 90,000 Holocaust survivors — a third of the total in Israel — who live in poverty, according to official figures. For the childless widow, her inability to fix her television or afford a taxi meant she was spending Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day on Tuesday alone and in silence.
You can read many other news accounts of today's activities here.

Comments:
Thank you for the reminder. I am not Jewish, and only have 1 Jewish friend. But as a human, we must not let these defining moments become stories...or history repeats itself.
 
That's really terrible about Gizela. It seems like so many people struggle with medical bills today.

I'm part of the blogroll check for ThurdayThirteen.com and you passed! Yay!
 
So sad. I'm not Jewish, but I can certainly feel for this poor woman. It just brings to the forefront how we must nip the Islamofascist problem in the bud before we end up with another generation of broken people like this poor woman.
 
too outraged for words
 
That lady has been through so much, and unfortunately her struggle continues. I wish every survivor could live high on the hog until the day they die.
 
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