Isroel Galperin
“God saved me four times.”
Isroel was born in Minsk. When the bombings began, his family attempted to escape in a wagon. In the chaos, he was separated from his mother and father. He was taken to Irkutsk where he lived with his aunt for the duration of the war. He visits Seskine Cemetery often, to say the prayer of mourning, El Molai Rachamin, for his wife, father and brother.
“I want everyone to love, respect and be friendly to each other. I don’t make difference in nationality; main thing is about the person. I respect Christianity a lot, because Christians rescued my mother, and the main thing, what makes the essence of life, the essence of Jewish religion is don’t do to others what you wouldn’t like to be done towards you.”
“God saved me four times.”
Isroel was born in Minsk. When the bombings began, his family attempted to escape in a wagon. In the chaos, he was separated from his mother and father. He was taken to Irkutsk where he lived with his aunt for the duration of the war. He visits Seskine Cemetery often, to say the prayer of mourning, El Molai Rachamin, for his wife, father and brother.
“I want everyone to love, respect and be friendly to each other. I don’t make difference in nationality; main thing is about the person. I respect Christianity a lot, because Christians rescued my mother, and the main thing, what makes the essence of life, the essence of Jewish religion is don’t do to others what you wouldn’t like to be done towards you.”
