Think This // After Hours

A few days ago I received an email from my friend who lives in Israel. He started a new organization to help poor holocaust survivors - ”Helping Hand Coalition.” One of the ways they are raising awareness is by producing a film “161154 - Chai Life.” This is an amazing true story of a holocaust survivor. Here is his shortened story: 

CHAI “Life”

This is a true story of Izak Goldfinger. In 1939 the Second World War is raging and Hitler is terrorizing Europe with war and ethnic cleansing. Itzhak Goldfinger, a 14-year-old boy from Poland, suffers the gravest penalty for his ‘crime: He is born a Jew… In the following 6 years he survives 11 Nazi labor and concentration camps. At the end of the war his body barely alive, is found in an open mass grave on top of a pile of corpes. Minutes from death, Izak fights for life.

How did Izak find the will to survive for 6 years in the most degrading circumstances the world has ever seen?

It is a miracle that he survived and lives to tell this story. These are the memories of a man who has seen it all. Memories for future generations, so that they will be reminded of the terrible things people do to each other.

In the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz / Birkenau, Izak gets a number tattooed on his arm. A rabbi tells him this number has a special meaning. The numbers correspond with Hebrew letters; those letters spell a word; this word will help Izak to find the strength to survive through his terrible ordeal.

Watch a trailer of this documentary movie. WARNING: This trailer contains shocking WWII images of death and starvation.

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My mother bought a Toshiba laptop last year on January 9th. A year later, 6 days after the manufacturer’s warranty expired her Toshiba laptop broke. It looks like the laptop’s motherboard fried. The cost to fix it was $900. Go figure. She has not used the laptop that much and she took a good care of it, but things happen. She was left without her primary (and only) communication device. Using Skype she stays in touch with the family and friends all over the world.

She was quite upset when the computer broke. She spoke with a friend, a nice guy who works at CDW.com about her dilemma. The nice guy told her that he would contact the manufacturer and ask if they can extend the warranty by a few days to cover this problem. After 5 days of nervous wait, Toshiba called and said that they will fix it under the original, one year manufacturer’s warranty.

Needless to say, my mom was happy and as soon as she got her Toshiba laptop back, she was calling all over the world using her favorite Skype. Life is good again.

Thank you Toshiba! Thank you the nice guy from CDW.com! Great customer service is still well and alive. Keep it up!