AGENCY SPOTLIGHT: WHITE COUNTY’S LIVING HISTORY
Not being able to physically meet with all our clients is new; however, we are actually a bit used to not knowing quite a few of your “faces” but instead we are used to knowing you by your voices, just like our own family members. I like to think it is a part of our job to care and know a little about each one of you if at all possible. We are asking you to trust us with insuring your most valuable items and often times your loved ones, we should know you! Sometimes, as in the most recent conversations with Mrs. Ludmila (Dubovsky) Jacob, these conversations are like talking to someone you have know for years. Many times in my life I have known that I am supposed to have come into contact with certain individuals. Ludmila will be one of the most soul touching of anyone I have ever met, and I have not yet had the honor of physically meeting her. Her words, her story, her heart, her love, and her humanity for even the most horrific people and events of all times is humbling – AND THIS IS WHERE LUDMILA’S MIRACULOUS STORY BEGINS UNFOLDING…If I told you Ludmila was born in 1944 in Poland, your first thought might be that she was born during WWII in Europe and what a scary time that must have been. You would be close. Ludmila was not just born during the war, she was actually born in a Nazi labor camp in Poland. The camp she was born into wasn’t far from were the Jews were held. The prisoners at this camp could actually smell the incinerators when the bodies were being burnt. Unfathomable. Today as she reflects back over the years and at the bravery her parents exhibited throughout their lives with the “unwavering determination that we would survive.” She tells people she who she is today due to witnessing her parents, “resolve to never, never give up and find a way through each challenge life gives. So I say to you: look for the positive, be joyful in the little things, show love to those around you, hug your children and tell them you LOVE them. God loves each and every human being he has created. Even those we find difficult to love. Do not let this pandemic dictate how you live. Be a beacon to those around you.” Lucy, as she goes by today, reminds us that yes, things may be bad right now and sometimes even as if we have no control over certain things in our lives, but we have choices and can get through anything. Lucy has shared with me a few articles that give specific accounts of the atrocities that she and her parents lived through. You may click on the links to read her stories – I highly recommend you do and share these with everyone you know. These are stories we all need to remember, to be aware victims like Lucy are right in our own backyards, and to be brave enough to stand up for what is right and good even when it is hard. It just takes us to be like Lucy-loving all humankind, no matter how extremely difficult it can be.
https://www.harmoninsnow.com/white-countys-living-history-a-miracle-of-faith/
https://www.harmoninsnow.com/lifes-challenges-by-lucy-jacob/
