WALL STREET JOURNAL
by Sophia Hollander
May 19, 2015

José Urbach’s earliest memories come from a concentration camp in Poland, where he and other children survived by hiding between flea-bitten mattresses during the daily SS officer inspections. After the war, Mr. Urbach married, moved to lower Manhattan and carved out a career as an award-winning artist and project manager at a downtown company. He witnessed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and began having nightmares. A few months later, he and his wife lost their jobs when their companies downsized in the aftermath. At 62 years old, he couldn’t find a new job. Mr. Urbach, now 75, is one of about 30,000 Holocaust survivors in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester living at or below the poverty level, according to experts and advocacy groups. READ MORE