Jeanette Neumann Berstein
Jeanette is the daughter of two Holocaust Survivors- Heinz A. Neumann, born in Berlin, Germany and Ethel Zloczower, born in Pforzheim, Germany. Jeanette is also a sister, wife, and mother of two children. She is a graduate of Temple University and an accountant. Jeanette is a founding member of Sons and Daughters of Holocaust Survivors of Greater Philadelphia.
David Lee Preston
One day four decades ago, Halina Wind Preston saw this print in a department store and bought it: A boy with a baseball glove is looking down a sewer grate for his ball. “Lost Forever!” is the title. My mother said it made her think of me looking for her past. The daughter of a poor Hasidic watchmaker in the Carpathian Mountains, she survived 14 months hiding in the sewers beneath the city of Lviv in 1943-44, and I have devoted most of my life to telling about it. The project took on new urgency eight years ago, when I discovered four notebooks of my mother’s original Polish writings from the sewer while cleaning out my childhood home near Wilmington. I also have written extensively about my father, George Preston, a native of the city of Rivne who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald. I retired in May 2020 after a long career in journalism, most of it at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News. I invite you to learn more about my parents at my website, https://www.DavidLeePreston.com, and to subscribe to my free monthly newsletter by signing up at the bottom of the homepage.
Simone Gorko
Simone Gorko is a licensed psychologist who has been in private practice since 1985. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors, she is a past president of Sons and Daughter of Holocaust survivors and active in Holocaust organizations and education. Clinically, she specializes in the treatment of trauma, both short and long term, including Holocaust survivors and their adult children, survivors of accidents and disasters, and childhood trauma survivors. Additionally, she has extensive experience in the treatment of panic and anxiety disorders. She has been certified in clinical hypnosis by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and has completed advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She has presented on “Children of Survivors Dealing with Their Parents Aging and Death” at conferences in Israel and Toronto. This paper was translated into Dutch and published in the Netherlands. Her article, “Myths and Realities About Offspring of Holocaust Survivors: An Overview of Research Findings” was published on the web in “If Not Now: an Internet Journal for individuals and agencies working with survivors of the Holocaust and their families. She was also featured in an article on children of Holocaust survivors that appeared in the Naamat Woman in Fall 2000.
Jeffrey Strauss
Jeffrey Strauss is the son of Holocaust Survivors who met in Philadelphia after the war. His mother is from Schrick, a village near Vienna, Austria. She is a survivor of Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Terezin, and Gross Rosen. His father, from Bad Mergentheim, Germany, was able to escape and arrived in the United States in 1939. Jeff’s mother endured extreme loss and deprivation. Her distant cousin Ilse, who was on the Kindertransport to England, always reminded Jeff how much she suffered. Despite all of her loss, his mother was a friendly, sweet, and kind woman who was very loving to family and friends. Jeffrey has an older sister Susan, who was born in 1952 followed by Jeffrey’s birth in 1956.
Isabel Redner Alcoff
Isabel was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to 2 hidden children, Salomon and Lily Lustig Redner, from Poland and France. She immigrated to the United States in 1959 at the age of 5. She earned her Master of Library Science degree at University of Pittsburgh and spent most of her adult life in Pittsburgh leading the Legacy of the Second generation group, serving on the Holocaust Commission of UJF, and on the executive committee of the Holocaust Survivor Organization. Isabel has completed more than 50 interviews for the USC Shoah Foundation and published articles and books about Holocaust survivors. Isabel currently resides in the suburbs of Philadelphia where she has become an active participant in the Sons & Daughters group. She was elected to the executive board of the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants in 2022 and attends their annual conferences around the world. Isabel has 2 children and 4 grandchildren and enjoys traveling around the world to visit family members.
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