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'So it won't be forgotten:' Children of Jacksonville-area Holocaust survivors tell their families' stories Matt Soergel, Florida Times-Union © Provided by Louis Post Louis Post's mother, Anna, was a prisoner of the Nazis at Auschwitz. Sher survived and is still alive at 98. The children of some of the more than 100 Holocaust survivors still living in Northeast Florida are now telling the stories of their parents — European Jews who somehow survived the Nazi concentration and labor camps, set about building families of their own, came to America and dealt with memories ...

The children of some of the more than 100 Holocaust survivors still living in Northeast Florida are now telling the stories of their parents — European Jews who somehow survived the Nazi concentration and labor camps, set about building families of their own, came to America and dealt with memories of an unspeakable horror that lingered throughout their lives. It’s painful and exhausting for them to talk about it, but they want you to know of their parents as the people they were: tough, scarred, generous. Survivors. Learn of Gloria Einstein’s father, Frank Colb, who in his early da...

Blooming hope: Community Tree project in Jacksonville lets people share messages of love, loss 'It does do what we had hoped, which is create a space where we're giving people permission to be sad, and permission to be hopeful.' Author: Florida Times-Union, Tom Szaroleta Published: 9:23 PM EST December 25, 2020 Updated: 11:31 PM EST December 25, 2020 JACKSONVILLE, Fla — While most trees are losing their foliage for the winter, a live oak in Riverside is blooming with messages of hope, grief and love. The Community Tree is in the front yard of...

While most trees are losing their foliage for the winter, a live oak in Riverside is blooming with messages of hope, grief and love. The Community Tree is in the front yard of the Yellow House art gallery at 577 King St. in Jacksonville. For the next few months, people are invited to stop by, jot a message on one of the 3-inch-by-4-foot ribbons and hang it in the tree. The idea for the project came from cultures across the world, said Hope McMath, Yellow House director. She said Scotland has a tradition of "wishing trees," Tibetans have prayer flags and people in Iraq, China and Japan have ...