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From: "Gilda and Bob Kurtzman" <gildak@zahav.net.il>
To: "David Simon Bendory" <david90@alumni.princeton.edu>
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Subject: Re: No words to describe
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:39:50 +0200
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I am sorry for the loss of your precious siddur but, baruch Hashem, you are
alive.  The whole thing reminds me of Hiroshima.  At least Hiroshima may have
had somewhat of a humanitarian goal - to end a long on-going war.

However there was a miracle and I am going to copy the text for you.  The man is
the son of very dear friends of ours who live here in Israel and he was a good
friend of my my daughter and her husband until he left Israel.  He was
interviewed
on Israeli radio and then it was translated into English.  I spoke to his mother
before and she told me that he "crawled to light" and in the interview he said
he "entered an office".  He must have crawled to the office.

Gilda Kurtzman
gildak@zahav.net.il
Petach Tikva, Israel

5. PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF A SURVIVOR FROM THE 78TH FLOOR
>Ari Schonbrun, whose office was on the 101st floor in World Trade Center
>#1, told Arutz-7 today how his life was saved by "miracle after miracle
>after miracle:"
> "I was on the 78th floor, about to enter an elevator for the 101st floor
>(I happened to have stayed home an extra ten minutes in order to help my
>son with some schoolwork...), when I heard a tremendous explosion.  All the
>electricity went out.  I entered an office where I saw some light, and
>someone was on the radio, I tried to get her to get some help, but she
>couldn't do it because there were too many people.  Then I told the floor's
>fire warden that we have to get out.  he said OK, we can go down the
>emergency steps, but we couldn't find them, there was only smoke all
>around.  I kept walking and I found a man saying, "Here, here," so about 15
>people went down the steps there.  A co-worker of mine named Virginia was
>hurt, and she kept saying, "Don't leave me, don't leave me."  I went with
>her and we started going down.  My cell phone was dead, but after we went
>about three floors, all of a sudden the phone started ringing.  It was my
>wife, and  I told her, "Joyce, I'm OK, I'm OK," over and over.  Then
>someone asked me if he could use the phone and I said sure, and again - the
>phone was totally dead.  I felt that it was just a miracle that my wife got
>through.
> "Virginia kept saying, 'Don't leave me,' and I said to everyone, 'Make
>way, there is someone wounded here,' and they let us through.  At one point
>she said she couldn't go any further, and I said, " Virginia, you just have
>to!"  We finally got down to the bottom, and the police directed us where
>to go outside, and I looked around and finally found someone to help
>[Virginia] - only then did I look around outside and see the second
>building on fire.  I couldn't understand, and I said, "I know that there
>was some bomb in the first building, but why is there a fire in the second
>building?" - because the whole time until then I didn't hear or know
>anything else...  So then they told me that two planes had crashed, one
>into each building.  We had had absolutely no idea.  At that point Virginia
>still didn't let me go, she said I have to go with her even to the
>hospital.  I said I don't know if they'll let me, etc.  But she said I had
>to, and they let me in the ambulance, and we were apparently the first
>ambulance that left from there.  When we got there, I found out that the
>second building fell.  And I know that if I hadn't gone with Virginia, I
>would have stayed there walking around, and who knows what would have
>happened to me.  I'm telling you, it was just miracle after miracle after
>miracle that saved my life. Just like in the story of Purim."