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Peresecki Wedding

Ben Peres and Chaya Eisental married on September 4, 1961 at the Concourse Paradise Theater in the Bronx. Chaya had recently moved to New York from Israel to be with Ben.

reflection

What do you remember about your own, or know about your parent’s wedding? What seems similar or different in Ben and Chaya’s wedding ceremony and reception? Does anything about it signify to you that this couple, and most of their guests, endured staggering personal and familial trauma, due to the Holocaust, in the past two decades?