“This is a great day for me. I was not privileged to experience a bar mitzvah. Rather, I experienced continuous escape during the Second World War, with severe hunger. My family was murdered before my eyes.
Celebrating my bar mitzvah brings me serenity. And today I return to being a 13-year-old boy.”
So said Avraham Alstar, 83-years old, who celebrated – along with 9 other Holocaust survivors – a moving bar mitzvah at the Western Wall.
Tradition at the Western Wall: Clearing of tens of thousands of notes
3,000 notes are sent each month through the Foundation’s website in addition to the hundreds of thousands of notes personally placed by visitors
8 Nisan 5784
April 16, 2024
