(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…
Gina Zuckerman, the nonagenarian Greenwich Village resident and Holocaust survivor who fought off a mugger in September, has been getting some recognition for her courage. 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. “I was…
Gina Zuckerman has always been a tough cookie. The 90-year-old Greenwich Village woman survived the Holocaust, worked in the testosterone-infused culture of Madison Avenue, and still lives alone and independently in her studio apartment. So a female mugger who tried to snatch Zuckerman’s purse got more than she could handle when the nonagenarian fought back…
במשך פֿון זיבן יאָר האָט דזשעף לויִס אַוועקגעגעבן צען טויזנט שפּײַזקאַרטלעך.
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