Sara Berkowitz

One Ray of Sunshine

Nika Kohn Fleissig's remarkable Shoah survival story recently took another unexpected detour. At 97 years old, Fleissig's outstanding strength of character and determined personality allowed her to act on impulse and fly from Arizona, USA to Israel, in order to visit Yad Vashem. Her objective was to see for herself the olive tree that had been planted in honor of Sophia Pozniak, her Polish piano teacher, who was honored in 1979 by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations – the prestigious... Continue reading