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AD 66 Holocaust Remembrance Resolution Ceremony at Congregation Ner Tamid Synagogue in Palos Verdes, CA

Dr. Raul Artal-Mittelmark, a Palos Verdes resident, is the recipient of the 2019 AD 66 Holocaust Remembrance Resolution.  He is pictured with the Assemblymember and Rabbi Rabbi Brian Schuldenfrei of Congregation Ner Tamid.

He was born in a labor concentration camp in Ukraine. After the Russian Army liberated the camp in 1944, Dr. Artal-Mittelmark, who was very young at the time, and his parents returned to their hometown of Czernowitz in Ukrainian Bukovina, which came under control of the Soviet Union. After many attempts to flee, his parents were finally able to move to Romania and then 12 years later to the United States, and in another a year they immigrated to Israel. After completing high school and serving in the Israeli Army, Dr. Artal-Mittelmark met his future wife, Micha. Together they completed medical school and then moved to the U.S. for advanced training, where he specialized in high-risk obstetrics. He enjoyed a rewarding and successful academic and medical career while they raised three children and were blessed with eight grandchildren.