During Yamim Noraim, Jews everywhere plead to be written down in the Book of Life. In the 1930s inGermany, that plea took on a special poignancy, and one family—the family of Rav and Rebbetzin Shimon Schwab — received the answer to their prayers on the fourth of Tishrei, 1936. Their daughter, Mrs. Judith Rosenberg, recalls growing up in the home of Yekkish royalty.
Sometimes you can tell a lot from a person’s appearance; other times you can learn a lot. Looking at Judith “Judy ” Rosenberg the daughter of Rav and Rebbetzin Shimon Schwab ztz”l
a person would never guess from her warm smile and laughing eyes that she started life as a refugee from Nazi Germany. One wouldn’t know that she spent her early years in the company of books because there weren’t any frum girls her age to play with in her new home inBaltimoreMaryland.
If those early childhood experiences had any sort of lasting impression upon her it seems that it certainly wasn’t a negative one; there isn’t a single complaint etched into her still young-looking face. If anything she says her childhood experiences have made her more sensitive to the needs of others.
A Nes for the New Year
Yet there’s no denying the fact that her neshamah came down to this world during one of the saddest times in Jewish history the year 1933 the year when the Nazi regime yemach shemam came to power in Germany.
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