Jerusalem – A 92-year-old New Jersey man fulfilled his dream of moving to Israel 71 years after he arrived in New York as a refugee from the Holocaust.
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Jack Nasielski, of Edison, arrived Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport on a Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah flight in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah & Integration, the Jewish Agency, Keren Kayemeth Le’Israel and JNF-USA.
Nasielski, a native of Dessau, Germany, fled the Nazis as a child through Poland, eventually being captured and sent to four Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz. He was liberated from the Blachhamer camp in 1945.
He will live in the central Israel city of Rehovot near his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
“Israel is the Jewish homeland. No one can persecute you for being a Jew in your own country,” Nasielski said upon arriving in Israel. “Today I am proud to be an Israeli and a real Jew. Israel is my new home and I love it.”
Sad to think there are alt-frumniks who hate Israel and deny the ingathering of the exiles, like this man, a survivor of the Churban. Baruch HaShem for resurrecting Israel, the Jewish homeland…
Also sad is the fact that you have alt-chilonom running the goverment along with the alt-setttlers who know nothing other than playing patsy with agent orange.
To #1 - Those whom you refer to as “alt-frumniks” (I never heard that silly term before), are an extreme minority. Everyone is entitled to their opinion (as are you), no matter how much we can’t stand it. This is America, the land of the free, and the home of the brave. As long as people behave respectfully, without violence, they are entitled to their opinions, even if their opinions are misguided.