Zahava Burack

Zahava Burack ( born December 14, 1932 in Nowy Korczyn, Poland, † 28 September 2001 in Palm Beach, Florida) was a Polish Holocaust survivor, philanthropist and political activist.

She survived as a Jew, the Holocaust. Together with her two sisters, parents and a cousin she spent two years in a tiny hiding place under the floor of a house of Polish Catholic peasants, who supplied them with food. After the liberation of the Buracks were barely able to walk able, also, they were blinded by the daylight that they were not enjoyed in her hiding place. Zahava Burack came first to Palestine and later moved to the United States. The last 40 years of her life she spent in Westchester County; recognized as a philanthropist, community leader and political activist ( she received, for example, a visit by the U.S. President Jimmy Carter ). In 1986, she made ​​her erstwhile benefactor, Stephania and Josef Macugowski, locate and ensured that these were honored in the United States. Zahava Burack died in 2001 from cancer.