One of the last known Holocaust survivors living in Alaska passed away last Thursday.
“Then he says he was born in Wachenheim, Germany, in 1929 and that’s when I realize, oh my gosh.” Rabbi Mendy Greenberg said. “And at about 10 years old, his life, his family’s life and millions of others’ lives stopped, paused, as we all happened in 1939 in Germany.”
“First lives in Fairbanks until 2013, 2014, and then comes to the valley. So basically Fred is living in Alaska for over — by that time — 70 years,” Greenberg said. “He was a very remarkable man and our family was very blessed to have him for as many years as we did,” his daughter Judy Schurosky said.
“He was sitting with them and said, ‘You know, I think my parents would be very proud of me if they could see me like this,’ and I told Fred that the Nazis maybe were able to destroy the bodies, to exterminate the bodies, of his parents and of millions more. But the soul is eternal, the soul is everlasting, and the soul is everywhere,” Greenberg said.
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