Nearly 100 Yad L’Achim staffers and volunteers attended a riveting lecture delivered by a former priest, Yaakov Wechsler, who shared his life story and encouraged them to continue their efforts on behalf of Jews like him who somehow ended up in Christianity. Yaakov’s story begins 79 years ago in the ghetto of Svencionys, Lithuania, some 70 kilometers north of Vilna. He was just a few months old when, at the height of World War II, his mother handed him over to a Christian family for safe keeping. A short while later, both his parents were sent to the gas chambers....
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