Among the Remnants
When three-year-old Joshua Gortler and his family were forced from their hometown in Poland during World War II, they scrambled for safety across border after border, finding refuge at last in Europe's Displaced Persons Camps.
Undocumented and unschooled, Gortler spent his adolescence learning to survive. When his family eventually relocated to the US, Gortler found himself starting over as teenager in a foreign land with only his spunk and sharp wits to rely on.
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Joshua H. Gortler was born in Poland in 1936. The Gortler family survived the Holocaust by living in Siberia and then Uzbekistan. In 1951, the Gortler family was sponsored to emigrate to the US, where they settled in Arizona. Gortler continued his education at Yeshiva College and then the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. He served for thirty-eight years as the executive director of the Caroline Kline Galland Home in Seattle from 1969 until his retirement in 2006.
Elliott Palevsky
CEO Emeritus,
River Garden Senior Services Jacksonville FL
Scholar of Yiddish language and literature
Dee Simon
Executive Director
Holocaust Center for Humanity
Seattle
This a is book that every young social worker, rabbi, or aspiring organizer needs to read.
Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak
