The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/rosh-hashanah-in-purgatory/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:34:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Rosh Hashanah in purgatory | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/rosh-hashanah-in-purgatory/ 32 32 Rosh Hashanah in purgatory https://www.timesofisrael.com/rosh-hashanah-in-purgatory/ Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:59:01 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=220824 My father, Alexander Breuer, fled the Nazis in 1938, only to return several years later with the US Army. He was among the first Americans to enter Buchenwald and witness, firsthand, the decimation of European Jewry. And on the scorched earth of occupied Germany, in 1945, he celebrated the High Holidays

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