As she typed in his name, she suddenly stopped and looked up at the nonagenarian before her
The old man walked into the office and quietly sat down.
Laibel Leibstein* had recently turned 90, and needed assistance navigating his Social Security benefits.
On his way to the office, as he walked down 48th Street, he’d taken a moment to savor the sweet niggun of boys learning Chumash, cascading from the open windows of their cheder.
Born in 1934 in Kyiv, Laibel was seven years old when the Nazis overran the city in September of 1941, rounding up and murdering over 30,000 Jews at Babi Yar.
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