Shul member Graham Diamond was one of the invited speakers at the Riverhead Free Library on Monday, May 6, to mark the observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The writer had collaborated with Holocaust survivor Aron Goldfarb on a memoir, Maybe You Will Survive, first published in 1991, in which Goldfarb tells the story of his experiences as a 12-year-old in Nazi-occupied Poland, his escape from a labor camp, his life in hiding, and his survival.

Following those boyhood years, Goldfarb immigrated to the United States, founded a leather outerwear company that grew into a publicly-traded organization with a portfolio of name brands.

“If someone like Aron could build a $3 billion business, think what six million of us could have done,” Graham Diamond said to the gathering.

Shul members will recall the dramatic story as the writer related it in a Lunch and Learn program held at our shul a few years ago.