happy birthday ‪#‎tbt‬ to my grandfather. Sasha aka Sam pictured here on the right with my mother, maternal great-grandmother, bubbie Sonia and my uncle coming to America from post-war Germany. He was a true hero. He had a beat on what was happening in Poland and survived his mother, sister and four brothers who were murdered in the war. Sasha fought in the underground resistance, ended up in Russia working on a rescue team in the coal mines where my grandmother worked. She claims when she first met him, he rode up to her on a white horse. He loved his work , building precision parts for planes and rocket ships. Sossee used to take me for neighborhood walks, smelled like onions and loved the ocean. He is missed to this day, but lived a good honest life until age 80. Happy Birthday, Sos.