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(JTA) â When he was a young boy, William Good memorized the first forty chapters of the Book of Isaiah. As a reward, his father, a successful businessman and a rabbi, bought him a bicycle.
In 1941, at age of seventeen, Good graduated from the Tarbut Hebrew high school in Vilna (now Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania) where classes were taught in Hebrew to prepare its students to move to pre-state Israel. But his plans were stopped short after the Nazis occupied the country.
Good was among the few survivors of the notorious Ponary massacre, in which tens of thousands of Jews were killed at a railway station outside Vilnius. Good and his father survived the war by hiding in a forest. His mother and brother died in the Holocaust.
William Good, 96, survivor of Holocaust massacre who became beloved California doctor William Good died of COVID-19 on Dec. 25, 2020. (Courtesy of Michael Good)
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(JTA) When he was a young boy, William Good memorized the first 40 chapters of the Book of Isaiah. As a reward, his father, a successful businessman and a rabbi, bought him a bicycle.
In 1941, at age of 17, Good graduated from the Tarbut Hebrew high school in Vilna (now Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania) where classes were taught in Hebrew to prepare its students to move to pre-state Israel. But his plans were stopped short after the Nazis occupied the country.