A Lesson in Hope- The Story of Shimon Greenhouse_old

Shimon Greenhouse was born in 1932 in Krasne, Byelorussia (today Belarus), to a traditional and Zionist family. At the end of 1941, following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Shimon and his family were interned in the Krasne ghetto. After one of the German's horses fell in a pit, they blamed the Jews. They concentrated several Jews at the town square and shot them. Among those to be murdered were Shimon and his father - Shimon survived, however, being extracted later from the murder site. In March 1943, the Germans liquidated the ghetto. Shimon and his mother, together with some twenty of the ghetto residents, remained in hiding for five days. After almost being discovered, they escaped to the forests, joining the partisans. Shimon took part in demolition missions against German trains. After the war Shimon and his mother returned to Krasne. Shimon completed his studies, later studying law and mathematics at university, and then immigrated to Israel with his mother in 1960. He started a family, and has children and grandchildren. Shimon has devoted his life to teaching, acting as an educator and principal at a high school in Petach Tikva, Israel.

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