Lillian Greenhut's late husband, Kurt Greenhut, was a child Holocaust survivor who endured internment in a concentration camp. After encouragement from her friends, she decided to share for the first time publicly about her husband's story.
"Soldiers come out of war with PTSD, he was 5 when the horrors in Germany started, when Hitler became chancellor, when his father's business was confiscated without compensation," Greenhut said. "He witnessed his father being beaten during Kristallnacht and being put in Dachau (concentration camp). He was later put with foster parents in Heidelberg because there was no one there. He was 11, no one there to take care of him and rounded up by the Gestapo, and put on the train, and wound up in a camp in southern France, where he accidentally found his father, pure accident."
"They helped provide feed money through various organizations into the camps and helped, they saved thousands upon thousands of lives," Greenhut said. "From the time he was 5 until he came to this country at 13, he went from one hellish thing to another and yet he always looked at life as his cup half-full."
"Came after eight years of having no education, going from camp to camp. He came here at age 13 and without speaking English, he went into the public schools and graduated at 20 and got his B.A. at Tufts University, Masters at Columbia, and went on for postgraduate work at Temple University," Greenhut said.
"Especially with the things that are going on in the world today, that if it weren't for loving, kind people, Kurt wouldn't have made it, and that it makes a difference," Donna said. "When you feel like you can't do anything in this world, you can still be kind and loving when the opportunity comes up and maybe save some people, literally if not figuratively. They looked beyond race and geography and all that and just stepped up and did the right thing and that's all you can do sometimes, is just personally to step up and do the right thing, and that's a message that needs to be told."
Fast-forward to today, Lillian feels uncomfortable when she goes to synagogue and said antisemitism towards Jewish people in America has gone up.
She said her late husband's motto was "we should not forget."
It was a message that resonated with the audience in attendance.
Revel Lodi sales director Danny Chu helped Lillian put together the slideshow for the presentation, filled with her family's pictures and artifacts.
Lillian also shared a poem that is displayed in Holocaust museums from Lutheran minister Martin Niemöller, which ends with "then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
"So, if we don't stick up, if we don't stand up and support what is right in this world, where are we heading?" Greenhut said. "What legacy do we leave for our children?"
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