This article originally appeared in the summer 1992 issue of the Where What When. It is as relevant and poignant as ever.

They live down the block or just around the corner. We meet them in the stores they have built, the shuls they have established, and at the simchas they attend. (They especially love a simcha!) They worked hard all their lives and are great grandparents now. They are the Survivors.

They talk and laugh and shop and read. They seem the same as we. But, how could they be? Each one stifles within his or her heart the pain of

Over the course of the past 15 years, the internet has slowly insinuated itself into our lives in a way that is truly transformational. While not all of us have jumped on that bandwagon, it is safe to assume that most of us have – if not in our homes, certainly at our colleges and places of employment. We use it for email, to pay our bills, to catch up on the news, and to help our kids do research for school projects. Googling has become a household word. These are some of the positives of this amazing new medium