Resettlement after the Shoah, July 2010 For resettlement in Dayton after the Shoah By Samuel Heider Samuel Heider On Dec. 3, 1949, displaced persons Phyllis and Samuel Heider and their 2 1/2-year-old son arrived in Dayton on the assurances of the Dayton Jewish Community Council, now the Jewish Federation. From

Passover memories, May 2011 My Passover memories By Samuel Heider, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer   Samuel Heider Passover is celebrated throughout the Jewish world as the Festival of Freedom, the Exodus from slavery in Egypt to freedom. But for the 6 million Jewish people including my three sisters,

By Samuel Heider, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer September 2009 My name is Samuel Heider. I was born in Poland in a small village by the name of Biljkow, 70 kilometers from Warsaw. I was the son of very religious Jewish farmers. My father, oleh hashalom, was a gerer