Bobker, Joe

Joe Bobker was born in 1947 in Ulm, a displaced persons' camp in Germany, to Polish Holocaust survivors Chaskel, zt"l, and Ida Bobker. On May 21, 1949, the family arrived in Sydney, Australia, on board the Luciano Marnaro liner as refugees from

Adolf Hitler's reign of terror. The most searing influence on his Jewishness were his parents, two simple Yidden who saw over 131

family members turned into ashes by the genocidal Nazi war machine and yet never swayed from their beliefs. Their faith was

clearer than vision.

Mr. Bobker studied at the Mercaz HaRav Kook Yeshiva in Kiryat Moshe,...