A Polish-Israeli Christmas Tradition Among the Children of Survivors
Howard Kaplan opened his laptop and went online Tuesday night to wire a modest sum of money to Renata Zawodzińska-Kądzioła, a woman in Poland he’s never met.
This has been a cherished Christmas tradition that Kaplan, an observant Jew residing in the northern-Israel town of Zichron Yaakov, has maintained in the decade since his mother, Toby, died at age 87. Toby had mailed cash every Christmas – and Easter cards and packages during the year – to Zawodzińska-Kądzioła’s grandmother and mother at least as far back as the late 1950s.
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