April 1, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of my Grandma Fay's liberation from the Holocaust. Please join me in honoring her memory and my Grandpa Sol's memory by raising funds for an organization I care deeply about, 3GNY. 

3GNY is an organization founded by grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Through 3GNY, I have the honor of telling Grandma Fay's story of survival to middle and high school students throughout New York City and Long Island. Our mission is to educate diverse communities about the perils of intolerance and to provide a supportive forum for the descendants of survivors. 

About Grandma Fay and Grandpa Sol:

Fay and Sol grew up in a small Polish village called Zvolin. In 1937, they were married, and in 1938, they even had a new baby boy named Moshe. Sol was a leather goods maker (shoes, belts, wallets) and Fay spent her days at home with Baby Moshe. By September of 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland, and Fay and Sol’s lives were turned upside down. Over the next six years, they lost six of their siblings, all of their parents, and even their three year old son was taken away and killed in 1941. Eventually they were separated with Fay being sent to Auschwitz and Sol being sent to Dachau. It is hard to describe the hatred, abuse, murder, and other atrocities they both witnessed during this period of time. I do know that if not for their strength and determination, I would not be here today. After Fay was liberated, she searched the German countryside for Sol, not knowing if he was dead or alive, but only looking based on rumors she heard. Eventually, they were reunited, and in 1946 they were lucky enough to move to New York with nothing more than each other. It was enough for them. They lived out long and happy lives in New York with Grandpa Sol passing in 1990 and Grandma Fay passing in 2004. Today, twelve Sherman great grandchildren live on in their memory.