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Four (More) Questions for Our Seder Tables

Carrying the Story: From the Exodus to Today

This spring, as we gather around our seder tables and recite “We were slaves in Egypt,” we claim the story of the Exodus as our own. We say “we” because the story didn’t stop thousands of years ago. It keeps going because we choose to carry it.

Over the last 30 years, tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors have given their testimony. Like the Exodus story, testimony was never meant to stop with the person who first spoke it. Now we carry these stories forward with care. They are our inheritance, our responsibility to steward for the future. Ours to tell our children
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In Loving Memory of My Great-Aunt Masha.

By Alison Berg

Masha was a survivor of Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen, where she and her sister, Anna, performed slave labor on an assembly line for a Nazi airplane factory. They were on a death march together, but liberated by the Russians. Masha eventually moved to the US joining her sister.

Masha was not hesitant or ashamed to call herself a survivor. She did so with defiance. She would mention it in the context of being able to conquer any other hardship she could face in her new life.
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Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors Bring Lessons of the Shoah to NJ Classrooms - The Jewish Link

By Debra Rubin

“I thank you for changing my perspective,” wrote the student. “I will always remember your grandpa’s story and will take it to heart.” Another student wrote they would often join in making jokes about Jews and people who aren’t white because they thought it “OK” since the student was also Jewish and was “obviously joking.”
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