He met his wife, Helen, in a displaced prisoners camp after the war and the young couple made their way to America with nothing more than a dream for a new life. When Americans liberated them, he went searching for his family and found no one. He survived life in the Warsaw Ghetto, nine concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the death march from Buchenwald. Stern was a teenager when Nazis took over his small Polish town. “That he was able to open the door for someone who would remind him of all his pain.”
“This act of his opening his home, I don’t know how to describe it, how forgiving or how big your heart must be to do that, and what that teaches me to be in the presence of someone who has been through that and is able to have me there and to love me,” she said. Article contentįor Heitfeld, Stern’s friendship is the rarest of gifts – an insight into human resiliency and compassion. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
