email1019.xml
Title
email1019.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
email
Date Entered
2003-01-03
September 11 Email: Body
From: David Simon Bendory (david90@alumni.princeton.edu)
Subject: No Words to Describe
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.jewish
Date: 2001-09-17 14:37:13 PST
Tens of people responded to my earlier story of my GGM's siddur, trapped in the wreckage of the World Trade Center. Several encouraged me to have faith: after surviving pogroms in Hungary, the journey to America, and 3 generations of my family, the siddur would surely survive this calamity as well.
Well, it seems that the presence of my siddur saved One Liberty Plaza, which is not only standing but also structurally sound -- in spite of earlier reports of its collapse.
As to my siddur, it has been retrieved and is safely in the hands of a friend who will personally deliver it to me tonight in time for Rosh HaShannah.
Earlier, I said that I have no words to describe the catastrophe from which I narrowly escaped. I now have no words to describe the miracle which has emerged from that same catastrophe.
God willing, there are more miracles to come, in the form of survivors who emerge from the debris.
Shanah tovah,
David Simon Bendory
Livingston, NJ
david90@alumni.princeton.edu
Looking for Hungarian KOHN, POPPER, BRAUCH, HECHT in Resita, Timisoara, Anina
Looking for Romanian SCHWARTZ or SIEGAL, VACSMAN in Botosani or Braila, Romania
Looking for Romanian HARR near Bucharest, Romania
Looking for SIMON and GOETZ from Germany
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/i/m/David-E-Simon/index.html
Subject: No Words to Describe
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.jewish
Date: 2001-09-17 14:37:13 PST
Tens of people responded to my earlier story of my GGM's siddur, trapped in the wreckage of the World Trade Center. Several encouraged me to have faith: after surviving pogroms in Hungary, the journey to America, and 3 generations of my family, the siddur would surely survive this calamity as well.
Well, it seems that the presence of my siddur saved One Liberty Plaza, which is not only standing but also structurally sound -- in spite of earlier reports of its collapse.
As to my siddur, it has been retrieved and is safely in the hands of a friend who will personally deliver it to me tonight in time for Rosh HaShannah.
Earlier, I said that I have no words to describe the catastrophe from which I narrowly escaped. I now have no words to describe the miracle which has emerged from that same catastrophe.
God willing, there are more miracles to come, in the form of survivors who emerge from the debris.
Shanah tovah,
David Simon Bendory
Livingston, NJ
david90@alumni.princeton.edu
Looking for Hungarian KOHN, POPPER, BRAUCH, HECHT in Resita, Timisoara, Anina
Looking for Romanian SCHWARTZ or SIEGAL, VACSMAN in Botosani or Braila, Romania
Looking for Romanian HARR near Bucharest, Romania
Looking for SIMON and GOETZ from Germany
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/i/m/David-E-Simon/index.html
September 11 Email: Date
9/17/2001
September 11 Email: Subject
No Words to Describe
Collection
Citation
“email1019.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed June 26, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/36938.