Last Thursday evening Gotham hosted a Zoom meeting with Ben's 91 years young Mom, Esther. I have heard her speak before and was looking foward to listening to her again.

A little background...Esther lived through the Holocaust because Mengele told her to go to the right and not to the left where her Mother and Brother were told to go. Had it not been for that fact and that a woman who stopped her from running to her Mom, Esther would not be here. Nor would her prolific and successful progeny.

Hearing her story once again brought me to tears. Everyone watching/listening was moved. Living through that nightmare, losing her family, going to America alone, finding love (twice), and having a family she still says "I've had a wonderful life." Truly a remarkable woman which Fred aptly named her A Gotham Treasure.

I wanted to know how she felt about what's going on now and the unprecendented events we are living through.  She offered it up without anyone asking saying "I don't understand...we don't learn...so much Antisemitism." She thought that what she lived through could never happen again.