Remarkable story of Jewish baby rescued during Holocaust

[wnylib]

Buffalo NPR program called What's Next? today had guest, 82 year old Greg Shershnevsky, who told his story of being smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto in Lithuania by his mother. He was 7 months old.

A Polish woman living in the city had a reputation for taking in orphaned or deserted children of any background and finding them homes or keeping them. Greg's parents arranged a drop off point to leave him. The Polish woman, Miss Alexandra, took him in and kept him til the liberation.

Meantime, Greg's father escaped the ghetto and joined partisans in Belarus. His mother was caught during the escape and killed. His father survived the war and went back and got Greg, who had been renamed Stanislaus.

Details of the story are here to listen to.

https://www.wbfo.org/podcast/buffalo-whats-next

EDIT TO ADD: Well worth listening to him tell the story. It has some amazing details about him, a Jewish girl who was also taken in, and how Miss Alexandra pulled it off.

[Carlitos Brigante]

1. K&R! nt

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Bookmarking

[Karadeniz]

3. Another great story was on tonight on PBS about an Auschwitz survivor who sang for the Nazis.

I can't remember the title, but his nickname was Saba.

[wnylib]

4. There are so many remarkable stories of survival

and of how people helped each other during that time in the middle of such brutality. Makes me feel like I should never complain about the things that go wrong in my life. They are so trivial in comparison.

[Karadeniz]

5. Amen!