She chose to be buried in a Catholic cemetery


Why would a Jewish Holocaust survivor choose to be buried in a Catholic cemetery? Yossi Sarid tells the fascinating and moving story of Tosca…

Antonia Gruber, originally from Lvov (Poland and then Ukraine), was saved during the Shoah by Nestor Zenon Sniadanko, a Ukrainian Catholic. She married him and they immigrated to Israel. She passed away many years after her husband and asked to be buried alongside him, in the Catholic cemetery in Haifa.

The article can be read here

Read about Nestor on Yad VaShem site here

 

 

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