IF YOU HEARD WHAT JOSH HEARD

JOSH SHARES THE STORY OF HIS GRANDFATHER, RUBIN GRUENBAUM, WHO WAS BORN IN 1924 TO A RELIGIOUSLY OBSERVANT FAMILY IN STRZYZOW, POLAND. HE HAD AN OLDER SISTER AND YOUNGER BROTHER. HE HAD A HAPPY CHILDHOOD AND NORMAL UPBRINGING. WHEN THE NAZIS INVADED HIS TOWN IN 1939, EVERYTHING CHANGED. RUBIN WAS FIRST SENT TO FORCED LABOR AND THEN OVER FIVE YEARS WAS IN SEVERAL CONCENTRATION CAMPS, SURVIVING TORTUROUS AND INHUMANE CONDITIONS, AND ULTIMATELY LIBERATED FROM BUCHENWALD. HE WAS THE ONLY SURVIVING MEMBER OF HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY. UPON LIBERATION, HE WAS SENT TO SWITZERLAND, AND THEN IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES, WHERE HE REBUILT IS LIFE. HE MET IS WIFE IN THE U.S. AND TOGETHER, THEY WERE COMMITTED TO BUILDING A STRONG JEWISH FUTURE, BOTH WITHIN THEIR FAMILY, AND WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. RUBIN BUILT A STRONG LEGACY AND FAMILY THAT CONTINUES TO GROW AND THRIVE TODAY.

IF YOU HEARD WHAT JOSH HEARD, YOU WOULD NEVER FORGET.

JOSH’S INTERVIEW WAS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF LINDA AND MARK GRUENBAUM AND THE GRUENBAUM FAMILY IN LOVING MEMORY OF RUBIN GRUENBAUM.