For those of you who were on vacation last week or just could not make the meeting you missed a truly inspiring classification talk by David. David started out by talking about his parents and their upbringing in Eastern Europe. His mother is an Auschwitz survivor, his grandparents never made it to Auschwitz as they were killed by the Nazis in their home village. His mother Magda made it through the camps.
(Picture from the archives of Auchwitz)
First Auschwitz and then near the end of the war she was released by the Russians and met another survivor from her home village where she had two sons. David's brothers. From there she met another man who took her to the movies one afternoon and was found by her Village "husband" at the movies with another gentleman where her village "husband" immediately left her. Madga started a relationship and moved her two sons and her husband to the US. David was born in 1954 and his parents both attended the University. His mother became a Physical therapist starting and owning 5 physical therapy centers in the new Jersey area. His father was also a very successful person.
David was extremely successful in his own right. He was a vice president at a wall street firm well know for his execution of a margin algorithm that saved the company millions of dollars. He wearied of the wall street life and moved to Vermont where he had two separate businesses. Both successful but after some time sold the first business and had some partnership differences and they parted company with the second comapny. During his time in Vermont he was a member of the local Rotary organization.
He started his next call which was as a trustee for a small university and found he loved working with 501 C3 organizations. He has been a treasurer, and Director in these organizations and he currently works with the Habitat for Humanity. Please ask David about his interesting life. He did comment that his mother spent a lot of time returning to Europe to testify and find concentration camp Nazi officers who were trying to hide from their hideous pasts. She felt it was her way of giving back to the people at the camps.
David said his mother never talked about her life in the camps to her family but would talk to complete strangers. He wondered growing up why he always had to clean his plate and found out one day that the reason was his mother was taken by the Nazis from her home and if that ever happened again she wanted her boys to have a full stomach.
David thank you for sharing your fascinating life with us.