JEWISH WEEK: I FEEL LIKE I AM BACK IN WARSAW
‘I Feel Like I’m Back In Warsaw’ |
For Holocaust survivors in northern Israel, stressful reminders of other wars. |
![]() Like clubhouses for retirees, the shelter’s thick concrete walls are filled with pictures of flowers and scenes from nature. The space is clean, large and air-conditioned, roomy and comfortable enough to accommodate the facility’s 164 elderly residents. Even so, the well-dressed seniors seated on plastic chairs in anticipation of a performance by the Tel Aviv-based Yiddishpiel theater group — whose members have risked their lives to help distract the retirees for a couple of hours — find it difficult to forget that this is a shelter, and that several rockets launched by Hezbollah have rocked this formerly quiet town, a few miles north of Haifa. |
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