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From: "Faith Gardner" <ragfhg@earthlink.net>
To: "David Simon Bendory" <david90@alumni.princeton.edu>
Subject: RE: No Words to Describe
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 5:18:7 -0400
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David,

This gave a wonderfully happy start to my day...we hadn't heard that One
Liberty Plaza is still O.K.  We have to find rays of hope where we can
these days.  So often I think of my g-grandparents, buried just a very few
miles from all that wreckage, and how they thought they were ensuring
freedom for future generations when they left Hungary in 1880 for their new
home....my grandfather was born on E. 3rd St.

Thanks for the good news this morning,

Faith
NH


> [Original Message]
> From: David Simon Bendory <david90@alumni.princeton.edu>
> To: Hungarian SIG <h-sig@lyris.jewishgen.org>
> Date: 9/17/01 9:08:49 PM
> Subject: No Words to Describe
>
> Tens of people responded to my earlier story of my GGM's siddur, trapped
in
> the wreckage of the World Trade Center. Several encouraged me to have
faith:
> after surviving pogroms in Hungary, the journey to America, and 3
> generations of my family, the siddur would surely survive this calamity as
> well.
> 
> Well, it seems that the presence of my siddur saved One Liberty Plaza,
which
> is not only standing but also structurally sound -- in spite of earlier
> reports of its collapse.
> 
> As to my siddur, it has been retrieved and is safely in the hands of a
> friend who will personally deliver it to me tonight in time for Rosh
> HaShannah.
> 
> Earlier, I said that I have no words to describe the catastrophe from
which
> I narrowly escaped. I now have no words to describe the miracle which has
> emerged from that same catastrophe.
> 
> God willing, there are more miracles to come, in the form of survivors who
> emerge from the debris.
> 
> Shanah tovah,
> 
> David Simon Bendory
> Livingston, NJ
> david90@alumni.princeton.edu
> Looking for Hungarian KOHN, POPPER, BRAUCH, HECHT in Resita, Timisoara,
> Anina
> Looking for Romanian SCHWARTZ or SIEGAL, VACSMAN in Botosani or Braila,
> Romania
> Looking for Romanian HARR near Bucharest, Romania
> Looking for SIMON and GOETZ from Germany
> http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/i/m/David-E-Simon/index.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
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