It is with heartfelt sadness that the Congregation mourns the loss of Alex Moskovic.  Alex passed away on September 14 ^th . He was pre-deceased by his wife Jo after 56 years of marriage.

Alex is survived by his two sons, Steven and David; daughters-in-law, Veronica Serotini and Anne Donohue; and grandchildren, Jeffrey, Andrew, Lauren, Max, Amy, and Sarah.

Alex was born in Sobrance, Czechoslovakia in 1931 to Joseph and Giselle Moskowitz.

In 1944 at the age of 13 Alex and his family were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After approximately 6 months of working on the Scheisse Kommando, pushing a rollwagen with other boys through the sub-camps of Auschwitz, Alex was put on the same transport as Eli Wiesel to Buchenwald, where with some 1,000 other boys they benefited from a German Communist-led underground effort with Czech and Polish Jewish veteran prisoner activists to sustain the youths until liberation in 1945.

After liberation, as the only survivor in his family, Alex came as an orphan refugee to the U.S. where he put himself through school, and eventually became a videotape editor with ABC's Wide World of Sports where he travelled the world and earned 10 Emmy Awards.

After retirement he spent much time as an active educator and representative of survivors on the Holocaust.  He was part of a U.S. State Department delegation to a conference on International Holocaust Era Assets in the Czech Republic.  He later travelled to many countries to discuss the film Kinderblock 66: Return To Buchenwald, and to share his story.  He used to say, as a survivor, he had a responsibility to tell the world.  He fulfilled that responsibility well.