My grandfather, Yaakov Levi z”l, who was born in Germany in 1923 and whose yahrtzeit was yesterday, was an artist and intellectual. His education was cut tragically short by the Nuremberg Laws, but his life was saved by the Youth Aliyah movement (as well as my grandmother’s). He ended up going back to war-torn Europe as a member of the Jewish Brigade, b…
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