Shining Bright in the Dark

Gita Hershkowitz was born in Czechosolovakia in 1928, the eldest of five children in the Wasserman family. She endured the horrors of the Holocaust only to find that she was the sole survivor of her family. Determined and optimistic, she established a beautiful Jewish home, when she married Avraham Nissan, shortly after the end of the war. Together with her husband she wandered between cities, countries, and continents, raising generations of righteous children. They were able to come...
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Gita Hershkowitz was born in Czechosolovakia in 1928, the eldest of five children in the Wasserman family. She endured the horrors of the Holocaust only to find that she was the sole survivor of her family. Determined and optimistic, she established a beautiful Jewish home, when she married Avraham Nissan, shortly after the end of the war. Together with her husband she wandered between cities, countries, and continents, raising generations of righteous children. They were able to come full circle when they returned to Moshav Yesodot in Israel, after many years of living in America.