Moses and the Holocaust

"During World War II, in Nazi-occupied Poland,

there lived a baby who learned not to cry."

"But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket
for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the
child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile."
Exodus 2:3

"Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her

attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket

among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it."

Exodus 2:5

Polish Jew Shulamit Bastacky was born in August 1941, two

months after the Nazis captured her home-town of Vilnius"

Her parents were captured by the Nazis and forced into a concentration

camp, miraculously they too survived the Ho£ocaust.

Shulamit Bastacky was raised by a Roman Catholic nun:
"locked up in this basement and cellar, not much light, total isolation"

"Bastacky said that when she was 4 years old, the nun

bundled her up and placed her near a riverbank.

"I don't know why she did it," she said of the nun.

"That kind of reminds me of the story of little Moses, although

I don't have his wisdom," Bastacky added with a smile.

A Lithuanian man discovered Bastacky and took her to a Catholic

orphanage, where a small miracle occurred, she said.

"It just so happened that my late father walked into

this particular orphanage," Bastacky said.

Bastacky said she was in poor physical condition, and her

father only recognized her because of her birthmark."

Sources:

Valley Independent - Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Wednesday, March 26, 2003