Not only has he helped me secure employment, but he continues to teach me every single day what it takes to be the BEST lawyer in the legal profession. However, when he learned of my financial situation he PERSONALLY called my cell phone within 5 minutes of my email. I never thought such a big name/reputation like him would respond to me. I called him up one day just for the hell of it to see if there was anyway he could help me. Misny because I knew he was the most successful attorney in the industry. Going into the legal profession, I wanted to be JUST LIKE Mr. When I found myself jobless during the height of the pandemic, I knew I needed help. Misny is the best! I am a 27-year-old single mother, and I am finishing law school in May at Cleveland-Marshall. Whether that means petitioning our elected officials to do the right thing or personally take action in contributing financial support, protesting against injustices, and defending victims of oppression. We all have a moral obligation to not only be aware of our current events, but moreover we must act upon them. While the horrors of the Holocaust remain an isolated historical event in some people’s minds, yesterday’s Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony drove home the answer to the question “Are we our brothers’ keepers?” It’s very important for the John Carroll community and for me personally.” “I was very close with my grandfather who passed away six months ago, so I look at this as something in honor of my grandfather. “This event is very dear to me because my family hails from the former Soviet Union and I come from a long line of Holocaust survivors,” David Markovich said. This was one of six stories that were told at the Holocaust Remembrance Day service at John Carroll University, and these six stories represented six million stories of those who were killed in the Holocaust. He and his sister Eva were sent to Auschwitz where they were immediately murdered. The German SS was relentless, and in 1942 discovered Abraham’s true identity. To escape certain death, Abraham’s parents sent him to a rural countryside village where the young boy lived as a member of a Christian family and took the name Jan de Witt. In 1941, when the Nazis took control of the Netherlands, the persecution and murder of Jewish citizens escalated. The story I told to an audience of John Carroll University faculty, administrators, students and community members in the Dolan Science Center had to do with a four-year-old Dutch boy named Abraham Beem. I was one of six individuals whom David invited to read a story of a Holocaust victim and light a candle in their memory. This memorial ceremony was led by David Markovich, the founding president of Hillel at John Carroll, a Jewish student group. Yesterday, I had the profound experience of participating at John Carroll University’s first Holocaust Remembrance Day service. Throughout time, that question remains at the cornerstone of our moral obligation to people who are less fortunate and/or vict ims of oppression and/or injury. He cites the Talmud: "A human being is forgotten only when his or her name is forgotten.The question “Am I my brother’s keeper?” was first posed in the book of Genesis by Cain after God asked where his brother Abel was, whom Cain had killed. By doing this, Gunter Demnig gives an individual memorial to each victim. Each plaque is engraved with the victim’s name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death. Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small, 10x10cm brass plaques placed in the pavement in front of the last voluntary residence of (mostly Jewish) victims who were murdered by the Nazis. "Stolpersteine" is an art project for Europe by Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of National Socialism (Nazism). Persons deported to Auschwitz had a chance to be selected for work (to survive a little longer) those deported to Sobibor were murdered directly.Ī stolpersteine for Isak Abraham van Spier’s wife, Henriette van Spier-van Leeuwen is with stolpersteine for her parents and sister at Koornstraat 3 in Oss. It is not known how long the van Spiers were held in Vught before being deported onward. Most deportations from Vught were routed through Westerbork. Manuel and both his sons were rag dealers (lompenhandelaars). Manuel van Spier and Henrietta Beem married and had two sons, Isak and Abraham and a daughter Sanjen (who survived). * Abraham van Spier, born 1912, deported 1943 from Vught, murdered 24 January 1944, Auschwitz. * Isak Abraham van Spier, born 1910, deported 1943 from Vught, murdered 9 July 1943, Sobibor. * Henriette van Spier-Beem, born 1881, deported 1943 from Vught, murdered 16 April 1943, Sobibor. * Manuel van Spier, born 1880, deported 1943 from Vught, murdered 16 April 1943, Sobibor. These memorial stones (so called Stolpersteine of stumbling blocks) commemorate:
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