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We Can Never Forget You, Susan

Shlucha Brocha Chana Metzger writes about Susan Gador, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust and became a beloved part of Chabad Midtown Manhattan. Full Story

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October 18, 2016 7:47 am

My name is Nicki Holt. My father and mother were long term friends of Stephen Gador and then in turn Susan. Stephen and Susan would visit us in London. For many many years, every Christmas they would send me a pocket calendar from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and we stayed in touch that way after my parents died. I had been trying got find out what happened to Stephen and Susan as I had not heard anything for some time either by email, phone or post. I’m grateful but of course sad to know what happened to them and… Read more »

Thanks for telling
February 7, 2016 10:19 pm

I am Peter Jagers, Stephen Gador’s Swedish cousin. Thank you for this beautiful obituary, which also told me that Stephen and Susan passed away. I only knew that there were no longer any responses on my emails.

thank you for sharing
April 18, 2015 11:13 pm

beautiful to read.

Emotional
April 17, 2015 12:54 pm

She was beautiful

So Inspiring!!!
April 17, 2015 4:54 am

Such a magnificent tribute to a true woman of valor!!! May this testimonial be an aliyah for her beautiful neshama!!!
May we all be zocheh to see her once again with the coming of moshiach speedily in our days Amen!!!!
Thank You, Hashem should help that you should have much continued success at Chabad of Midtown
Shaindy

So inspiring
April 17, 2015 2:48 am

As a granddaughter of a holocaust survivor I feel very moved .Reading this I feel like I lost a ‘bobby’ although I never actually knew her .
In her honor I will take on something spiritually as a ‘ granddaughter ‘ does !
Thank u for this article.

Beautiful
April 16, 2015 10:09 pm

Thank you very much for sharing a small portion of the life of Roizy Susan. You made me very proud to have the same English name as her!

Yes---Absolutely heartwarming!
April 16, 2015 6:58 pm

A beautiful tribute to an amazing lady!

Valerie Susskind Roshwalb, Roizi's cousins (Riverdale, NY)
April 16, 2015 6:55 pm

Dear Rebetzin Metzger, thank you so much for this moving piece about our dear and beloved cousin Roizi z”l. We did hear that your mother attended the funeral and were happy that someone from her beloved Chabad of Midtown family was in attendance. Yasher Koach! VSR

thank you for the beautiful story
April 16, 2015 6:18 pm

as a child of survivors i can never hear enough about the wonderful stories of the life before ww II and although the horror and sadness the holocaust brought upon our nation we did survive

may hashem soon gather us from every corner of the earth and bring moshiach

gabriella lev; neice of rayzie
April 16, 2015 4:36 pm

such a fine uplifting warmly felt and true tribute.Thank-you so much.I will share it with the rest of the family in Israel.Rayzie’s last two years in Israel were happy,surrounded by family who loved her and whom she loved,She spoke of you in Manhattan and loved you .
best wishes . Gabriella Lev

so nice
April 16, 2015 4:08 pm

we shall all meet again with susan with moshiach now!

Heartwarming
April 16, 2015 3:01 pm

What a magnificent tribute – fitting for the Jewish heroine Susan was.
May her memory be for an eternal blessing, and may Chabad of Midtown ascend from strength to strength!

Thank You for this
April 16, 2015 2:50 pm

What a beautiful poignant story & appropriately sent to me on Yom Hashoa. She loved the Rabbi, Rebbitzen & Mispallelim
who treated her with Love & respect. I will share with my family. Yasher Koach
Chavi Diamond

Beautiful
April 16, 2015 2:43 pm

May she be a good beiter for klall yisrael!!!!

BH
April 16, 2015 2:04 pm

We need Moshiach now!!!

Beautiful - A tribute to a dignified woman
April 16, 2015 1:38 pm

May her memory and life values live on forever

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