Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Second Generation Survivor Speaks

The fear of many survivors of the Holocaust is that when they are gone, their stories will be gone. Those who grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust, the children of survivors, make the Holocaust more than a fading story. They are living testimony to the hopes, dreams, and ideals that their parents and grandparents embodied.
A few years ago, on Yom Ha’Shoah, the Holocaust Day of Remembrance, Paul Goldstein, a Fairfield resident, was asked to speak to his synagogue about how he learned of his parents’ experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland; how they cheated death in the Warsaw Ghetto; Lead a revolt in the Treblinka Concentration camp; fought with the Partisans and on the Russian front; and how their lessons of life, death, and survival impacted his own approach to life. He was so moved by the impact his story had
on the members of his congregation and on him, personally, that he now continues to speak to schools and other organizations, as a personal tribute to those who survived and those who died.

Speaker Paul Goldstein - Before he retired and began his speaking journey, Paul spent his career in the advertising world creating campaigns for such well-known brands as DirecTV, Dunkin’ Donuts, Maxwell House Coffee, and Frito-Lay. He has also taught Marketing and Advertising at West Conn University, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.