Until the day I got married, at the age of 20, I handed over every penny I earned to my father to help pay the bills

I said no. But there weren’t many other viable options, and my parents and siblings kept urging me to reconsider. So after a while, I said yes

She may have survived the war and built a successful professional life for herself, but part of her died in Auschwitz

“You know how our community is,” he said. “And you have to think about what this will mean for your other children’s shidduchim”