100 Years of Juanita Plumb
Dassie Abelson was born in 1944 in what was Palestine at the time, but is now Israel. “These were people who suffered tremendously, who were able to escape because they wanted to be alive and find a place of safety … My mother was one of those people.”
UnBroken tells the story of the seven Weber siblings who evaded death at the hands of the Nazis and escaped Germany following their mother’s incarceration and murder at Auschwitz. After being hidden in a laundry hut by a German farmer, the children spent two years alone in war-torn Germany. Beth Lane is the daughter of the youngest Weber.
Yes, Ageism is real. No, we don’t prepare ourselves for it. Maybe we can change the way we look at age in the workplace if Bonnie Marcus keeps it up. Because being a woman, a suburban homemaker, mom, and divorce in the ‘80’s wasn’t enough of a battle. [insert eyeroll]
“There are some real haters out there, right? That are just this is the way our nation should look and no one else belongs here. You can pretty much sense those people. But what I’ve found is that I try to find the good in everybody.” Lorraine Orr
