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Sy Karfiol and Rabbi Rabbi Chaim Zaklos visit prior to Karfiol’s talk about his survival during the Holocaust
before about 40 people in person and online at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, Sunday.
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VACAVILLE — Sy Karfiol spoke at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life on Sunday, recounting surviving the Holocaust for a room of about 30 listeners. He is part of the Central Valley Holocaust Survivors and Descendants group out of Sacramento, comprised of survivors and the children of survivors who tell their stories at schools and other places so the world will not forget. Karfiol, of Fairfield, has spoken to groups for about 10 years, some talks in large high schools and others in small venues. Karfiol and his sister were hidden during the Holocaust by their mother Berthe (nee Freifeld) Karfiol after she realized their father had been taken and probably
would never be seen again. A childless Catholic family took them in and hid them in plain sight. They both survived the war years as Catholic schoolchildren. A couple of years after the war, when their father miraculously returned to take them back with him to Belgium, everything changed. “That was the end of the good years,” Karfiol said Sunday. Today we would say his father had post-traumatic stress disorder but at the time, he had a temper. He took his rage out on his young son, making his childhood a very difficult place to grow. It was many years later that he heard what happened to his mother from a friend from the old neighborhood. She and his grandmother were shot one night in their home by soldiers.
“According to this friend, she was part of the underground and had blown up a building,” Karfiol said. The Chabad Center for Jewish Life has held several talks over the years with survivors of the Holocaust, including the step-sister of Anne Frank. “We have had almost a dozen,” Rabbi Chaim Zaklos said Sunday. These talks, he said, are important because they remind people who are struggling that they, too, can survive these ordeals. “We can summon optimism and keep hope alive in these turbulent times,” Zaklos said. “It is also important to remember those that perished.” Zaklos spoke to the group and those who attended on Zoom about See History, Page A8
US gets first 70,000 pounds of baby formula Tribune Content Agency A planeload of more than 70,000 pounds of baby formula arrived in the U.S., starting an emergency program to alleviate a national shortage that has left some parents scrounging to feed their children. More formula will start arriving in stores “as early as this week,” Brian Deese, President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser in the White House, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The plane that landed in Indianapolis on Sunday will address “15% of the overall national volume that we need,” he said. Faced with pressure by both Republicans and Democrats to address the crisis, Biden last week ordered the use of government planes to airlift infant formula to the world’s richest country. He also invoked emergency powers under the Defense Production Act to spur domestic manufacturing. The U.S. Air Force cargo plane from Ramstein Air Base in Germany delivered
bring more competition in our economy, have more providers of this formula, so that no individual company has this much control over supply chains.” Congress last week passed a bipartisan bill, the Access to Baby Formula Act, that requires baby formula manufacturers to prepare for future shortfalls and removes barriers to families purchasing formula Jon Cherry/Getty Images/TNS on the Special SupplemenA U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft carrying 78,000 lbs of tal Nutrition Program for Nestlé Health Science Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior Women, Infants and Chilformula is seen on the tarmac of Indianapolis Airport, in dren, or WIC, program. Indianapolis, Sunday. Abbott Chief Executive Officer Robert Ford apol132 pallets of Nestlé and closed a plant after ogized for worsening the Health Science Alfa- four infants fell ill. shortage in a piece for The “Our team is working Washington Post and said mino Infant and Alfamino Junior formula. around the clock to get the company will make Agriculture Secretary safe formula to everyone “significant investments” Tom Vilsack, who met the who needs it,” Biden wrote to prevent a recurrence. plane, said the cargo will on Twitter on Sunday. Available data didn’t find Deese said the short- evidence that Abbott help infants who need speage highlights how few products caused the illcialized formula. Supply chain snarls companies are making nesses, he said. that reduced formula baby formula. Meanwhile, desperate “How did we end parents have turned to availability across the U.S. turned into a full- up in a market where the internet for solutions blown crisis in February we have three compa- and alternatives. Medical when Abbott Laborato- nies that control 90% of experts warn that homeries, the largest supplier of the market?” he said. “It made versions of baby powdered infant formula, goes back to this ques- formula come with serious issued a voluntary recall tion of how we can health risks.
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VACAVILLE — All evacuation warnings were lifted Sunday in connection with a wildfire that sparked Saturday in the rugged hills north of Vacaville and promoted evacuations in an area previously devastated by the LNU Lightning Complex Fire in mid-August 2020. The fire, dubbed the Quail Fire, had burned across 0.23 square miles (150 acres), according to the Solano County Office of Emergency Services, and was 75% contained as of early Sunday afternoon, when all of the evacuation warnings
were ended. The fire started around 3:15 p.m. Saturday in the area of Quail Canyon Road and Pleasants Valley Road, southwest of Winters, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reports. Cal Fire listed the burn area Sunday afternoon at 0.21 square miles (135 acres). Firefighters continued their work Sunday as the National Weather Service issued a fire danger warning, known as a Red Flag warning, for Solano County and across the central portion of the state See Fire, Page A8
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Crews are shown in the distance working to slow the spread of the Quail Fire north of Vacaville, Saturday.
Ukraine says it’s holding off Russia’s intensified thrust Los Angeles Times KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces were deterring Russia’s intensified offensive in the east, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, even as he labeled the grinding military panorama across the country as “very hard.” The situation in the heavily contested eastern Donbas region “is extremely difficult,” Zelenskyy said in his overnight address, noting that Russian forces continue to mass against the eastern Ukrainian cities of Severodonetsk and Slovyansk, strategic
points that serve as the base for the Ukrainian defense of the Donbas. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine are deterring this offensive,” the president said. “Every day that our defenders take away from these offensive plans of Russia, disrupting them, is a concrete contribution.” He described a strategy of wearing down and frustrating Russian forces as they continue to pound Ukrainian positions. The president said the military situation “had not changed signifSee Ukraine, Page A8
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