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Honorary Board Member Mr. Fred Terna was honored on Dec 3rd, 2021, in the Tree of ‘Continuity’ First Planted by Children at Terezin Concentration Camp Dedicated at Museum of Jewish Heritage in NY.

New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Battery Park City Authority held a dedication ceremony on Thursday for the descendant of a tree that was initially planted by Jewish children inside the Theresienstadt (Terezín) concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Called “The Children’s Tree,” the silver maple 15-foot tree was planted near the front entrance of the Jewish museum. Several Holocaust survivors attended the ceremony, including Theresienstadt survivor Fred Terna, as well as Mara Sonnenschein, the great-granddaughter of Dorette Roos, who died at the concentration camp. Terna and Sonnenschein helped water the Tree planted outside the museum. “My feeling of the tree is one word: memory,” Terna said. “This an occasion of remembering. This planting is a form of remembering, and that’s what this Tree is: continuity.”