LI Herald: Telling Time, and an Important Story, at HMTC

From the article:

When Andrea Bolender, of Glen Head, took over as chair of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in September, she said that one of her missions would be to promote the idea of being an “upstander,” someone who doesn’t sit by while injustice happens around them.

That idea, Bolender said, is in keeping with the center’s newest artifact, a clock, donated by Vice Chair Ron Fishman’s family, that was hidden by his grandparents’ neighbors in Paris after his grandparents were taken to Auschwitz by the Nazis in 1940.

The Art Deco clock, Fishman said, hung on the dining room wall in the home of Shama and Dora Priever, Jewish immigrants from Poland. His mother, Rosette Priever Gerbosi, has childhood memories of pushing her doll carriage around the dining room and hearing the clock chime — a scene from a normal childhood before the horrors that befell her family.