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, the Colb family symbolizes the powerful, moving, often heartbreaking, and inspiring essence of l’dor v’dor, “from generation to generation,” as we pass along and embrace through family and community our learning, traditions, and commitment to the Jewish people and to social justice throughout the world.
The Colb family’s legacy is preserved in its own collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) – Jews Rescuing Jews: The Ben Zion and Clara Colb Collection, from which much of the content here is summarized or paraphrased.
Source: The Times of Israel
URL: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-heros-granddaughter-continues-his-legacy-ldor-vdor/