Sheldon Goldberg
Her parents pretended to be Catholic to escape
the Nazis and communist Poles, before fl eeing to
Western Europe after the war.

Graber, 83, now lives in Park Heights in Baltimore.

She is a book author and retired high school teacher,
and she belongs to Agudath Israel of Baltimore and
Congregation Tiferes Yisroel. She vividly remem-
bers one seder in Germany after the war.

“We had this beautiful apartment where all our
friends, who were all Holocaust survivors, were
seated at an extended table, and my mother
would be going back and forth to the table set
up by beautiful dishes — the best linen, china and
crystal,” she recalled. “My father sat at the head of
the table and had a Haggadah in front of him. He
knew the whole book by heart. Other survivors
recited from the Haggadah.

“My father sang the traditional tunes and inter-
spersed it all with stories from the ‘old days’ from
the days before 1939.

“It was a joyous experience, feeling part of a
group, some of it a little bit new to me, but it felt
good,” Graber said. “It’s almost like I came back to
my roots, getting back to my Jewishness.” ■
Ellen Braunstein is a freelance writer.

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