19-11-2018 22:03 via vancouversun.com

Adopt-A-School: Breakfast at Bridgeview Elementary in Surrey is healthy and plentiful, thanks to donation

There is a poignancy about Jack Kowarsky’s presence among the children being served breakfast in the cramped lunchroom of Surrey’s Bridgeview Elementary.
In May 1945, when he was the same age as some of the youngest ones now eating scrambled eggs, he had miraculously survived the Holocaust.
Of an estimated one million Jewish children living in Poland in 1939, very few survived the war — only 5,000, according to information published by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
And he
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