(JTA) — A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor who fought off a purse snatcher said the alleged attacker arrested this week should not go to jail if she is mentally ill. Gina Zuckerman, a Holocaust survivor from Poland, was 90 when she was jumped by a purse snatcher in September near New York’s Washington Square Park. The assailant tried…
This month she has been awarded a proclamation by the state of New York and received a letter from presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, reported the news site DNAInfo.
Gina Zuckerman has always been a tough cookie. The ninety year old Greenwich Village woman survived the Holocaust, worked in the testosterone-infused culture of Madison Avenue, and still lives alone and independent in her studio apartment. So the mugger who on Tuesday tried to snatch the woman’s purse was in for a surprise when the nonagenarian fought back—and won.