I would echo everything my sister Lydia said in her heartfelt remembrance and, too, remember my father as the multi-faceted "character" who always elicited a smile in his interactions with a wide variety of people over the years of his 98 year life. He truly loved people and was also an animal lover who took concrete action to aid and assist God's small and innocent creatures.
He started life as Natan Schneider in a small Romanian village., As a young boy he always fondly recalled studying Talmud and Torah with his grandfather, embraced by his loving family. He was just a boy when the Holocaust began for his small village of Uner-Stenestie with a near total massacre of the local Jews. He emerged some 6 years later from the shock and trauma of the War as a resourceful and determined young man. Yet, for me, one of the most significant facets of my father's essence, if we can ever really define such a thing, is that having survived this horror, he managed to nonetheless retain his kindness and joy of life..
This deep seated combination of survival skills, determination, resourcefulness, coupled with kindness, curiosity and joy of life . . . this merely scratches the surface of the essence of the complex and wise man, Nathan Snyder. .
I will focus on remembering his kindness, wisdom, and determination. I will do my very best to honor his legacy in conducting my own life.
Thank you from both of us to all who kindly posted on this site,
