Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Raisa Bordeski

Raisa Brodsky will be one of six survivors lighting torches at the State Ceremony opening Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem.
Raisa (Rachel) Brodsky was born in 1937 in Sharhorod, Ukraine to the Zubkovs, a traditional family of five. They spoke Yiddish at home and observed the Jewish holidays.
In early September 1941 the Germans passed control of Sharhorod to the Romanians, who established a ghetto in the town. Raisa’s father Zamvel organized underground meetings in his house, and together with his Jewish and Ukrainian resistance comrades, they smuggled food, clothes, equipment and medicine to the partisans. In 1942, Zamvel contracted typhus. One of the refugees in the ghetto, Dr. Teich, smuggled medicines he had stolen from the Romanian headquarters to the partisans and also used them to treat Jews, including Zamvel.
After the Red Army liberated Sharhorod in March 1944, Raisa studied mathematics and drafting, and she taught mathematics at the local school.
When the USSR permitted immigration to Israel in 1989, Raisa and her family realized Zamvel’s dream and made aliya. Raisa did not know any Hebrew, but she studied at an ulpan and within a year, she had passed the mathematics teacher training course and started working at an elementary school.
Raisa also started telling her story to a wider audience, and even stayed in contact with the schoolchildren who heard her testimony. She shares her memories with them and helps them with their history studies.
Raisa and Semion have 2 children, 5 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
For more details: www.yadvashem....

[@haileeraestout5567]

I Feel Deeply Sorry For You And Your Country And All The Victims And Survivors Of Not Only The Holocaust But The Holodomor And The Volhynia Massacre And You Have The Full Support Of The USA We're Rooting For You Ukraine

[@DavidGrossmanOfficial]

My family is also from Ukraine and during WW2, those who did not evacuate from the Germans were murdered in German occupied Ukraine by the Nazis and local Ukrainian collaboraters.

[@sleepyjoesucks676]

I am sorry for your loss. May the memories of those lost remain with us always.

[@youthfulcurmudgeon3627]

Shouldn't have declared war on Germany first, as can be observed by the headline of the Daily Express, marked Friday March 24, 1933. They brought it all upon themselves and thusly deserve no sympathy.

[@cherylmillard2067]

I cannot understand why this type of hatred can happen. I also can't imagine what it was like to be subjected to such a loss of this magnitude. I'm glad she found happiness in life and family.

[@sleepyjoesucks676]

What a beautiful reply. And I agree, the hate It's unfathomable. It's scary to watch this same overwhelming hate take over the world, again.

[@youthfulcurmudgeon3627]

Shouldn't have declared war on Germany first, as can be observed by the headline of the Daily Express, marked Friday March 24, 1933. They brought it all upon themselves and thusly deserve no sympathy.

[@cherylmillard2067]

@@youthfulcurmudgeon3627 That's a load of crap, Hitler's 25-point program was established in 1920 and was the Party’s only platform. The 25-point program rejected the Versailles settlement and demanded to unify all people of German “blood", and a Greater Germany ruled by a strong central state, it also would deny citizenship/rights to non-Germans, especially Jews. Hitler was appointed chancellor, Jan. 30th of 1933, once elected he started actions against the Jews. Anything the Jews did was in retaliation. Educate yourself.

[@Nah762]

@@youthfulcurmudgeon3627 Copying and pasting this comment isn’t helpful.

[@youthfulcurmudgeon3627]

Shouldn't have declared war on Germany first, as can be observed by the headline of the Daily Express, marked Friday March 24, 1933. They brought it all upon themselves and thusly deserve no sympathy.

[@cherylmillard2067]

That's a load of crap and you're cherry-picking. Hitler's 25-point program was established in 1920 and was the Party’s only platform. The 25-point program rejected the Versailles settlement and demanded to unify all people of German “blood", and a Greater Germany ruled by a strong central state, it also would deny citizenship/rights to non-Germans, especially Jews. Hitler was appointed chancellor, Jan. 30th of 1933, once elected he started actions against the Jews. Anything the Jews did was in retaliation. Educate yourself.

[@peterlombard2292]

"They brought it all upon themselves and thusly deserve no sympathy." -Really? 'Good luck trying to prove that one. I suspect being on the side of Nazi Germay is going to be a difficult task, sadly those people do exist. For anyone who is interest in the context of the headline, I will add my own comment on this post as a I suspect this particular thread may be deleted. In my view, it should be.

[@cherylmillard2067]

@@peterlombard2292 This guy's a world class troll, a holocaust denier. Just start by googling the info in his comment, you'll see what I mean.