A new outdoor mural will be unveiled in the spring at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. The plan is to do it on Yom HaShoah, the global Holocaust Remembrance Day, as a means of honoring three people who settled in Buffalo after risking their lives to save Hungarian Jews from Nazi murderers.
“Everything you’re supposed to do for your fellow man, it’s right there”: Tibor Baranski, a retired Buffalo teacher, is one of the last witnesses to the desperate efforts to protect Jews from the Nazis in
All three principals have died. Nandor Forgach, a key figure in bringing the mural here, said it will provide a high-profile reminder of what they did – and what was at stake. At Yad Veshem, the world holocaust remembrance center in Israel, they are named as Righteous Among the Nations – non-Jews who put themselves at lethal jeopardy while protecting innocents.
The mural will include Forgach’s grandfather, Tibor Baranski, a Buffalo teacher who saved at least 3,000 Jews near the end of World War II, and Sister Margit Slachta, founder of the Sisters of Social Service, who saved thousands more.
The story takes another intimate twist at 7 p.m. Thursday, when Linda Ambrus Broenniman speaks at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, two days…
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