The stories of rebirth and the efforts to memorialize them began after a period of many decades – a long period during which Holocaust survivors, myself among them, did not recount what we had been through and did not speak about the subject of the Holocaust.

It took me quite a long time to come to terms with myself over the reasons for this, and I first spoke publicly on the matter at the ceremony at Yad Vashem for the launch of the guided film catalog of the viewing center.

When my friend Shaike Weinberg was appointed director of Beit Hatfutsot (the Museum of the Jewish People) and recruited me to the Friends Association of the museum, I memorialized my parents and my brother who were murdered in the Holocaust on the museum’s Memorial Wall.

I erected a memorial monument at the cemetery in Holon in memory of the people of my town who perished in the Holocaust.

I was among the founders of the President’s Fund of Bar-Ilan University, and my family was memorialized on the donors’ recognition wall of the founders of the President’s Fund

The municipality of Ramat Gan, the city where I have lived since I established my family there, bestowed upon me the title of Honorary Citizen of the City

The Manufacturers Association of Israel, of which I was a member through the industrial activities of the companies in our group, awarded me the Distinguished Industrialist Award for the year 2013.

On Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day 5775 – April 2015, I was honored by Yad Vashem to be one of six torch-lighters at the Memorial Ceremony on the Mount of Remembrance at Yad Vashem. At the ceremony I was accompanied by my granddaughter Dana, and my family members and acquaintances were in attendance.