The grandmother _ "bubbe" in Yiddish _ who survived milestone moments of the 20th century, including the Soviet execution of her husband for helping to keep Judaism alive.
When she was 5, her father was killed in a pogrom, or organized massacre, and her grandparents, with whom she and her mother lived, were subsequently executed.
Years later, Garelik, her husband and their small children were evicted from their apartment into the deep snow because he refused to do factory work on the Jewish Sabbath. As a Jewish underground operative, he was arrested in the 1930s under Josef Stalin, then shot. (His wife didn't know exactly what happened to him until 1998, when his fate was revealed in an unsealed KGB file).
When authorities warned her against lighting the Sabbath candles, Garelik fled with her children. The family moved six times in three years due to harassment from Soviet authorities; one home was a stable.
But she was resourceful, growing potatoes in back of a synagogue to feed her family _ with enough left over for a profit that paid for the dilapidated synagogue to be fixed.
By 1941, when the Germans advanced onto Soviet soil, Garelik and her brood escaped to Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, where she made and sold socks to survive. In 1946, they ended up in a detention camp in Germany.
After the war, she moved to Paris, where she established a Lubavitch Jewish girls' school that still exists. She immigrated to the United States in 1953, helping to start a Brooklyn organization whose members visited the sick, and a boys' school for which she collected money into old age.
When she was 5, her father was killed in a pogrom, or organized massacre, and her grandparents, with whom she and her mother lived, were subsequently executed.
Years later, Garelik, her husband and their small children were evicted from their apartment into the deep snow because he refused to do factory work on the Jewish Sabbath. As a Jewish underground operative, he was arrested in the 1930s under Josef Stalin, then shot. (His wife didn't know exactly what happened to him until 1998, when his fate was revealed in an unsealed KGB file).
When authorities warned her against lighting the Sabbath candles, Garelik fled with her children. The family moved six times in three years due to harassment from Soviet authorities; one home was a stable.
But she was resourceful, growing potatoes in back of a synagogue to feed her family _ with enough left over for a profit that paid for the dilapidated synagogue to be fixed.
By 1941, when the Germans advanced onto Soviet soil, Garelik and her brood escaped to Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, where she made and sold socks to survive. In 1946, they ended up in a detention camp in Germany.
After the war, she moved to Paris, where she established a Lubavitch Jewish girls' school that still exists. She immigrated to the United States in 1953, helping to start a Brooklyn organization whose members visited the sick, and a boys' school for which she collected money into old age.
The grandmother _ "bubbe" in Yiddish _ who survived milestone moments of the 20th century, including the Soviet execution of her husband for helping to keep Judaism alive.
When she was 5, her father was killed in a pogrom, or organized massacre, and her grandparents, with whom she and her mother lived, were subsequently executed.
Years later, Garelik, her husband and their small children were evicted from their apartment into the deep snow because he refused to do factory work on the Jewish Sabbath. As a Jewish underground operative, he was arrested in the 1930s under Josef Stalin, then shot. (His wife didn't know exactly what happened to him until 1998, when his fate was revealed in an unsealed KGB file).
When authorities warned her against lighting the Sabbath candles, Garelik fled with her children. The family moved six times in three years due to harassment from Soviet authorities; one home was a stable.
But she was resourceful, growing potatoes in back of a synagogue to feed her family _ with enough left over for a profit that paid for the dilapidated synagogue to be fixed.
By 1941, when the Germans advanced onto Soviet soil, Garelik and her brood escaped to Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, where she made and sold socks to survive. In 1946, they ended up in a detention camp in Germany.
After the war, she moved to Paris, where she established a Lubavitch Jewish girls' school that still exists. She immigrated to the United States in 1953, helping to start a Brooklyn organization whose members visited the sick, and a boys' school for which she collected money into old age.
When she was 5, her father was killed in a pogrom, or organized massacre, and her grandparents, with whom she and her mother lived, were subsequently executed.
Years later, Garelik, her husband and their small children were evicted from their apartment into the deep snow because he refused to do factory work on the Jewish Sabbath. As a Jewish underground operative, he was arrested in the 1930s under Josef Stalin, then shot. (His wife didn't know exactly what happened to him until 1998, when his fate was revealed in an unsealed KGB file).
When authorities warned her against lighting the Sabbath candles, Garelik fled with her children. The family moved six times in three years due to harassment from Soviet authorities; one home was a stable.
But she was resourceful, growing potatoes in back of a synagogue to feed her family _ with enough left over for a profit that paid for the dilapidated synagogue to be fixed.
By 1941, when the Germans advanced onto Soviet soil, Garelik and her brood escaped to Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, where she made and sold socks to survive. In 1946, they ended up in a detention camp in Germany.
After the war, she moved to Paris, where she established a Lubavitch Jewish girls' school that still exists. She immigrated to the United States in 1953, helping to start a Brooklyn organization whose members visited the sick, and a boys' school for which she collected money into old age.
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