In Loving Memory of Sam Wasserman

In Loving Memory of Sam Wasserman. . , Samuel "Sam" Wasserman was captured by the Nazis in 1942 and taken to the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland. His wife and two young children were executed immediately upon arrival, and Sam himself was forced into daily labor. Eventually, however, Sam escaped from the camp during an organized revolt. Sam then joined the resistance movement, continuing to fight as a partisan against the Nazis. Wounded in battle by a bullet, he was nursed back to health by a woman, Sophie, who would become his second wife., Soon after the war, while living in a displaced persons camp in West Germany, Sam and Sophie had a daughter, Shelley, and the new family then moved together to the nascent country of Israel. The Wasserman family has grown steadily ever since, now including two grandchildren, David Adelman and Jami Adelman Morgenstern, and four great-grandchildren, Jade and Sage Adelman and Grant and Hudson Morganstern., Sam's values and resilience inspired the lives of many, including his family friend, Alan Horwitz. the name of this Memorial Plaza honors these two people: Alan Horwitz, whose generous contribution helped make it possible, and Sam Wasserman, whose story reminds us both for hope for the future and to never forget the past.