{"id":39953,"date":"2015-05-19T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T14:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=39953"},"modified":"2015-05-19T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T14:46:56","slug":"the-immeasurable-value-of-a-fake-diamond-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/the-immeasurable-value-of-a-fake-diamond-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immeasurable Value of a Fake Diamond Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/ring-article.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-post-39953 wp-image-39955 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/ring-article.png\" alt=\"ring-article\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>Inside a tiny box in a temperature-controlled, locked cabinet at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, there is a ring. It is not particularly beautiful, and in purely monetary terms, it is not particularly valuable. But behind this ring is a beautiful story of survival of Jews living under Nazi occupation\u2014people for whom the ring\u2019s value proved incalculable.<\/p>\n<p>When WWII broke out, Abraham \u201cBumek\u201d Gruber was a cattle merchant and butcher in Drohobycz, a small town\u2014now part of Ukraine, but then part of Poland\u2014that was then home to some 14,000 Jews. The town, whose Jewish history dates back to at least the 15th century, fell under Soviet control in 1939. But two years later, the Nazis invaded; killing squads arrived, murdering 400 Jews on the streets in a pogrom. The rest of the Jews of Drohobycz were ultimately forced into a ghetto. While it was technically an open ghetto with no fences, Jews were not allowed to leave. May 21, 1943, marked the final liquidation of the ghetto; the Germans declared the town\u00a0<em>Judenrein<\/em>, cleansed of Jews. But roughly 400 Jews hid in the forest or other hiding places and survived.<\/p>\n<p>Bumek was one of them\u2014thanks, in part, to the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/tabletmag.com\/jewish-life-and-religion\/190972\/fake-diamond-ring\">Tablet Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside a tiny box in a temperature-controlled, locked cabinet at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, there is a ring. It is not particularly beautiful, and in purely monetary terms, it is not particularly valuable. 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