Today is a very sad day for me.
But as sad as I am I can not help but feel proud for the Journey that this man would lead.
Never give up hope or faith.
Normally I do not write about friends passing when others do not know them. But I feel compelled to write about the passing of one of my family friends, Bernie Spiegel.
He would lead one of life’s most epic Journeys.
Bernie was born in 1931 in Czechoslovakia. In the late 1930s the Gestapo came in and deported all the Jews. They were on a train for 3 days. When Bernie got off the train in Auschwitz he got in one line, his parents had to get in another line. That would be the last he ever saw of them.
He would experience pure hell before being rescued by a Canadian emissary who bought young boys to the west. He would make his way to Pennsylvania and would live the American dream. Made a fortune in the bar business. Owned a ton of the bars we would never visit like those underneath the Frankford El. As seedy as that business was he never got into any trouble.
A pure cash business. His wife and my mother would become best friends.
Experienced life’s worst.
Experienced life’s best.
But as sad as I am I can not help but feel proud for the Journey that this man would lead.
Never give up hope or faith.
Normally I do not write about friends passing when others do not know them. But I feel compelled to write about the passing of one of my family friends, Bernie Spiegel.
He would lead one of life’s most epic Journeys.
Bernie was born in 1931 in Czechoslovakia. In the late 1930s the Gestapo came in and deported all the Jews. They were on a train for 3 days. When Bernie got off the train in Auschwitz he got in one line, his parents had to get in another line. That would be the last he ever saw of them.
He would experience pure hell before being rescued by a Canadian emissary who bought young boys to the west. He would make his way to Pennsylvania and would live the American dream. Made a fortune in the bar business. Owned a ton of the bars we would never visit like those underneath the Frankford El. As seedy as that business was he never got into any trouble.
A pure cash business. His wife and my mother would become best friends.
Experienced life’s worst.
Experienced life’s best.
