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From: "Joan Parker" <housemom@att.net>
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Subject: Your GGM's Siddur
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:59:39 -0400
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Dear David,

For some reason your story touched me and I felt I needed to let you know.

It truly is a miracle that you survived this horrendous tragedy, but how wonderful
that not only was your Siddur recovered but in time for Rosh HaShannah.

From your mouth to G-d's ears:  God willing, there are more miracles to come, in the
form of survivors who
emerge from the debris.

Thank you for letting us know.

Wishing you and yours a happy and sweet New Year, which certainly started right with
the Siddur coming home where it belongs!

Joan Parker
Miami, FL
Searching: GOLDBERG and GOODSTEIN-Russia and Brooklyn, NY; PINKUS and
WINOGRAD-Odessa, Ukraine and Brooklyn, NY; GELFAND-Minsk and Bronx, NY; YEHUDIS;
KATZ, Bronx, NY







Subject: No Words to Describe
From: "David Simon Bendory" <david90@alumni.princeton.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:10:09 GMT
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Tens of people responded to my earlier story of my GGM's siddur, trapped in
the wreckage of the World Trade Center. Several encouraged me to have faith:
after surviving pogroms in Hungary, the journey to America, and 3
generations of my family, the siddur would surely survive this calamity as
well.

Well, it seems that the presence of my siddur saved One Liberty Plaza, which
is not only standing but also structurally sound -- in spite of earlier
reports of its collapse.

As to my siddur, it has been retrieved and is safely in the hands of a
friend who will personally deliver it to me tonight in time for Rosh
HaShannah.

Earlier, I said that I have no words to describe the catastrophe from which
I narrowly escaped. I now have no words to describe the miracle which has
emerged from that same catastrophe.

God willing, there are more miracles to come, in the form of survivors who
emerge from the debris.

Shanah tovah,

David Simon Bendory
Livingston, NJ
david90@alumni.princeton.edu
Looking