Holocaust Survivor to Tell Her Story in Port Washington

Holocaust survivor Ethel Katz will make an appearance at this year’s Port Washington Jewish Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration next week.

Katz will speak about how her family was murdered in the Holocaust and how she narrowly escaped and survived the last few months of the war on her own.

In addition to Katz’s presentation, there will be memorial prayers and lighting of the Holocaust menorah.

The event is open to the community and will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 16 at The Community Synagogue, 160 Middle Neck Road.

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Katz and her large, close-knit family lived in Buczacz, Poland, which is now part of Ukraine. The German Army entered the town in 1941 and mobile killing squads murdered her twin brother and other young Jewish men in a forest near the town. The rest of her family escaped immediate destruction by hiding in barns and fields for many years. They relied on their non-Jewish neighbors for food.

The Soviet Army liberated her town in 1944. Ethel immigrated to the United States and raised a family after the war. She has written a memoir of her experiences during the Holocaust, “Our Tomorrows Never Came.”

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