One Jew's miraculous story.
by Sara Yoheved Rigler

Saved by a Prayer

A Holocaust survivor once told me, “Every Jew who survived the Holocaust survived by a miracle.” Alexander Ungar survived by four miracles.

Alexander was born to an affluent, religious Jewish family in the village of Hidosholos in southwestern Hungary in 1906. He was married with three children by 1940, when he was drafted into the Hungarian army.

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For two minutes, Israel came to a standstill on Thursday in tribute to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.