This Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the 6 Million who were systematically targeted and murdered for being Jewish. Two of them were my great-grandparents, Chayim and Ettele Gross. Chayim was a tailor, devoted dad, and religious jew and Ettele, or as my grandfather called her “Momika” would always find a way to feed anyone who might be hungry on shabbat, even with limited scraps of chicken and potatoes dwindling to feed her own. They were both killed in the gas chambers in Auschwitz, but as they were carted off to their deaths, Chayim repeatedly told my Zaidy “no matter what, I want that you should live.” The last words Ettele called out to him were “my Yankele, go in good health.” So, it is for both of them that I will survive, go in good health–and never forget. Never again. | @ifyouheardwhatiheard • • Via @leyakaufmom • #neveragain #yomhashoah #weremember #holocaustremembrance #jewish #neverforget #history #speaktheirnames #neveragainisnow #familystories