Rita Plush learned to recite Kaddish after her mother died. Then she lost her spouse and two of her three kids. Grief-stricken, she found comfort in learning.
A new digital collection catalogs the writings of the distinguished Jewish benefactor who is the great-great-great-great aunt of the modern-day Rebecca Gratz.
'Like many Holocaust survivors, my mother buried her early traumas. Like many children of survivors, I have had an insistent need to uncover the past.'