Jerusalem Post
April 11, 2007
By Alex Margolin
Tamara Maximenok-Bromberg and her mother Evangelina Maximeniuk, 1940.Photo: Yad Vashem [archive]
Like many who lived in Nazi-occupied Odessa, Tamara Maximenok-Bromberg has vivid memories of being locked in the Jewish ghetto with her mother and being refused permission to leave.
But unlike the Jews of Odessa, who were sent to the ghetto against their will, Maximenok-Bromberg and her mother were non-Jews who empathized strongly with the suffering of their neighbors and snuck into the ghetto as often as possible to bring food and warm clothes for their Jewish friends, bribing the guards at the gate if necessary. [Read more…]
