RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Edith Stern was a Holocaust survivor of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II; and
WHEREAS, Edith Stern was born in Vienna, Austria and her family moved to Czechoslovakia; and
WHEREAS, In 1942 Edith Stern was sent to Auschwitz with her mother who was killed in the gas chamber; and
WHEREAS, Edith Stern was later sent to other locations, including the Grossschoenau labor camp, where she was eventually liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Red Army; and
WHEREAS, Edith Stern returned to her beloved Czechoslovokia and went to Prague where she survived and escaped the Communist occupation of Czechoslovakia; and
WHEREAS, In 1964 Edith Stern came to the United States and a year later began working as an administrator of the Self Help Home on the South Side of Chicago; and
WHEREAS, Edith Stern is truly an example of what journalist Tom Brokaw called "Our Greatest Generation;" and
WHEREAS, Edith Stern was honored at a special celebration held on the eve of Veteran's Day at Wintrust's Grand Banking Hall, 231 South La Salle Street, Chicago; and
WHEREAS, Edith Stern is exceedingly worthy of our highest admiration and esteem; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and the members of the Chicago City Council, assembled this eighteenth day of November, 2015 do hereby express our sincere respect to Edith Stern as a Holocaust survivor; and