Familie Makler/Mor
Shifra survived the Shoah, her father, mother and two siblings died. She grew up in a kibbutz in Israel, where she found her older brother, and later moved to Tel Aviv.
In 1992, Shifra read an article in the newspaper Ma'ariv about the children from Bullenhuser Damm and learned what had happened to her sister. In 1998, she visited the Bullenhuser Damm memorial for the first time:
"I thought I was a strong person and that life had toughened me up. But when I was standing in the cellar, I felt like I was falling apart. The impression was so strong that my whole body was shaking."
The next day, she was invited to visit the daycare center named after her sister Bluma. The children had drawn pictures, sung Hebrew songs to her and also asked Shifra questions about her life and that of her siblings: "Children who ask such questions, I told myself, are the generation that will prevent man-made atrocities like the Holocaust for all time."
In 2012, other family members came to Hamburg for the memorial service. Shifra lived in Tel Aviv until her death in 2016 and visited Hamburg almost every year. Her nephew Yuval and his family from London also regularly attend the memorial service in Hamburg. Vanessa Gravenor, a second cousin of Bluma, has continued this tradition for several years.
