The story of Gizela - Afik Shiraz. Abinun Shmuel

"You won't be younger. You have the opportunity to see the family if you want we can fly in the summer."

In 2016, we all flew together to Zlatibor, Serbia and celebrated Father's seventies birthday and Baba's eighty-ninth birthday. Until the last moment, it was unclear whether the plan would come to fruition, because two months before her flight Baba fell and broke her leg and needed prolonged rehabilitation, but at the end everything worked out and the entire extended family went along with her cousins - Cilla's children. In Split, I came across even larger quantities of food than Baba's at home: there, even before you finished a dish, you were already served the next dish, and when you think you finished the meal, it turns out those were just the starters, and Tilda didn't even see at the table because she was busy all the while bringing more and more dishes. When my first son, Tohar, who was also Baba's first great-grandson, was born, I know for sure she felt a sense of victory and was glad that instead of destroying us, we survived and expanded. On her visits today, Zoe enjoys playing with her, and Tohar likes to come because of the food. Baba, went through an education based primarily on fear of punishment from God. Except for the observance of the actual commandments, this education is not according to Judaism. Punishment is the lowest level of spirituality, and the real fear that the Torah is aimed at is the fear of falling from spirituality, to transgress the will of God, and to actually hurt yourself and others. Punishment is only a definitive manifestation of this process. And more were affected, she and the family, from the gentiles who were in friendship and closeness and later in the war discovered their true hearts and turned their backs on them. And hence, despite all the cover-ups and hides, she maintained some customs such as saying "giving us life" for a new fruit, religious wedding, her son circumcision, keeping tradition at New Year's Eve, Passover, Tu B'Shvat, Shavuot, Chanukah and Purim. To the degree of warmth she knew from her education. And it is no wonder that in our family I have repented, but this is not the place to expand here. The powers that she discovered herself during the Holocaust are also an unimaginable and it is obvious that in the environment, in which many did not survive, the providence guarded her and it is an open miracle to have a tender heart and praise the Lord for this. Adi There is no doubt that Baba's story is a frank miracle with everything she went through.

Baba is a restless grandmother, with an inner strength, and one of the qualities provoking appraisal is her ability to slowly and gradually open the pains that the Holocaust signed in,

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