As we recognize International Holocaust Remembrance Day the day before the running of the #FredLebowHalf, we acknowledge our longtime president of New York Road Runners and holocaust survivor, Fred Lebow. His story ⬇️. Lebow was born Fishel Lebowitz in Romania in 1932. During World War II, members of his family heard increasingly disturbing reports of mistreatment of Jews by the Nazis. Eventually the situation became dire as authorities prohibited Lebow’s father from running the family business and detained some family members. When orders came for the town’s Jews to wear the yellow Star of David and report to a nearby military barracks, the family split up and went into hiding. They later learned that their extended family in Hungary and Czechoslovakia—grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins—had all been murdered by the Nazis. Lebow’s immediate family briefly reunited after the Nazi surrender, then splintered again, with Lebow and a brother joining a convoy of Jewish orphans h...