Meet An “Amazing” Who Finally Fulfilled Her Dream

Miriam Schreiber, at 81, finally received the diploma she’d never thought would be hers: an honorary high school diploma. Before she could even enter first grade, Miriam was forced to go on the run with her family to evade the Nazis. Unfortunately, they were not successful, and Miriam and her family spent the next 7 years in a slave labor camp. Miriam survived, although most of her family did not.

Once liberated, she immigrated with her post-war husband to America, where the couple raised their 2 children. Miriam, who didn’t even have the benefit of an elementary school education, nonetheless taught herself English, German, Hebrew and Swedish, in addition to her native Polish and Yiddish.

Her story, and the resilience she demonstrated, so inspired the senior class at Hartford’s New England Jewish Academy, that they agreed Miriam should be awarded that cherished diploma. What a wonderful dream come true.

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