A Trip to Minnesota’s North Shore With a Holocaust Survivor and His Wife

Annie and I had a very unique opportunity to take a holocaust survivor, Yosi, and his wife Tamar on a tour of Minnesota’s beautiful north shore.  Annie and I stayed with Yosi and Tamar back in 2007 while on vacation in Israel. In gratitude, we told Yosi and Tamar that the next time they came to the United States we would have to take them on a tour of Minnesota’s North Shore, so we did!

Yosi survived the holocaust because of the Kindertransport (Refugee Children Movement,) a rescue mission that took place nine months prior to the outbreak of World War II.

Yosi. Holocaust Survivor

The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, and the occupied territories of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, and farms.  Yosi was on the last train allowed to leave before the war started, narrowly escaping.

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