Shulamit perlmutter biography definition

Induction Year: 2009

By any measure, Charlene Schiff has lived a much quieter life in Alexandria than at any time since she was a small child.

She has devoted most of the last thirty years to telling the stories of earlier days. As a witness to history and an observer of humanity from a unique perspective, she has kept alive the memories of her lost loved ones and the world that perished with them.

Charlene grew up in the town of Horochow, Poland in the region that included the major city of Lvov.

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The thriving Jewish community always considered itself Polish, even after the Soviet invasion of 1939 annexed the region to the Ukraine (where it remains today). Horochow boasted an impressive wooden synagogue that stood at the center of a bustling Jewish quarter.

Charlene (whose original name is Shulamit) was born into the respected household of Prof.

Simcha Perlmutter, who taught philosophy at the University of Lvov. Her mother, Fruma, was also trained as a teach