A Young Man Escapes Nazi-Occupied Poland When Ben Zion Kalb (later “Colb”) escaped from Poland to Slovakia shortly after the German invasion of Poland (September 1, 1939), and then proceeded to rescue his fiancée and well more than 1,000 other Jews from death in the Holocaust, he surely would not have imagined that, 85 years later, his granddaughter, Sara Colb, would continue and honor his legacy via her own advocacy for the Jewish people. From Ben Zion to Sara,…

I am an American Jew, and the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Like so many Jews in this country, I was raised on stories of unthinkable horror. My grandfather’s parents were rounded up with other Jews from their town and shot dead. His brother was tortured and killed by SS officers. His sister, her husband, and baby were killed.  My grandmother’s parents and four brothers were murdered, leaving her the sole surviving member of her family. When news of the atrocities Hamas…