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Isidor "Izzy" Juda with 1938 passport issued after escaping to Switzerland, at John C. Daniels School in March.
Isidor “Izzy” Juda — a Holocaust survivor and World War II U.S. Army veteran who lived in the Towers and who regularly spoke with New Haven Public Schools students to ensure that one of the 20th century’s greatest atrocities is never forgotten — has died at the age of 101.
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Isidore "Izzy" Juda with 1938 passport issued after escaping to Switzerland.
Midway through a discussion at Congress Avenue’s John C. Daniels School, fifth-grader Lucas Rivera posed a question to Holocaust survivor Isidor “Izzy” Juda that caused Rivera’s roughly 50 classmates to inch even further forward in their seats.
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Crowd celebrates groundbreaking on broken ground of basketball court
“L’dor v’dor.”
Gus Keach-Longo, president & CEO of The Towers at Tower Lane invoked that Hebrew phrase meaning “from generation to generation” Sunday to sum up the purpose of a community garden groundbreaking and ground-floor kick-off ceremony.
The ceremony celebrated the latest expansion of the senior living facility on Tower Lane.
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Featured speaker Lazowski (above) addressed Holocaust remembrance crowd (below) at the Towers.
“What happened to me,” Philip Lazowski, one of the last remaining survivors who can still tell the tale, “is a lesson on what could still happen.”
