Olga Lipschitz, CEO of the Cobble Hill Health Center and Holocaust survivor will be honored on November 11 by the Jewish Faculty and Staff Association at City Tech CUNY on the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht. The Brooklyn Eagle profiles her and tells her amazing story:
Brooklyn Eagle: The Remarkable…: Olga Spitzer Lipschitz, the CEO of the Cobble Hill Health Center on Henry Street, recalls her sister telling her to say “yes” when asked by German soldiers at the ammunition box factory they were brought to if she was able to work. And then as she was instructed to run to the right to join the workers’ line with the rest of her family, a bag of poppy seeds that her mother had given her and which she carried in a satchel on her back began to leak.
“I have such a clear memory of those poppy seeds running down the back of my neck as I ran,” Lipschitz relates.
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