Sunday Special-Silence is Golden!

 Sunday Special-Silence is Golden!

"Ik chup Sau sukh" is a Punjabi and Hindi idiom meaning "

One silence, a hundred comforts"

The phrase is an abbreviated form of the older proverb, "Speech is silver, but silence is golden," which originated in Arabic culture around the 9th century. While words are important (silver), silence is considered even more precious (golden) in certain situations. Silence saved her!

That boy grew up to become **Gene Simmons**, the fire-breathing front man of the legendary 

rock band KISS.

Flora Klein was born in Jand Hungary in 1925. When the Nazis invaded in 1944,At just 14 years old, Flora’s world was torn apart. she and her family were sent to concentration camps. Only she and her brother survived.After the war, she rebuilt her life from ashes. In 1949, she gave birth to a son in Haifa, Israel—Chaim Witz. The world would come to know him as Gene Simmons, the iconic front man of KISS.

In 1958, Flora and young Gene moved to New York City. With no husband and no English, she worked factory jobs and raised her son alone in a modest apartment in Queens. She never remarried.Gene often said his mother was the strongest person he ever knew. She never talked much about the camps, but her silence carried the weight of survival. "Everything I am," Gene once said, "is because of my mother."

Flora Klein passed away in 2018 at the age of 93. She lived quietly, but her legacy echoes on stages around the world—proof that from unimaginable darkness, resilience can raise something extraordinary.Flora wrote these words after she was released from the camps. "Prior to the beginning of the persecution, I was living in Budapest, at no. 5 Kenny-Zsigmondy-Gasse. As of March 1944, I — like all Jews in Budapest — had to wear a yellow Jewish badge on my chest at the behest of the German authorities, I was not allowed to leave my apartment without this badge for Jews. I had to abide by the prescribed curfew and was not allowed to leave the city. Violating these provisions was severely punished. In May 1944, I was assigned to the 'Yellow House' in Signet-Astra and had to continue to wear the badge for Jews."

In a second statement to the office, Flora wrote: "In November 1944, I was brought to the Braveness concentration camp. I lived there in block no. 21 and worked in the fields, gathering potatoes outside the camp. I wore old civilian clothes with a white cross painted on the back, in a camp surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by the SS."

She stayed alive by saying nothing.

When Nazi soldiers asked, “Who speaks German?” She kept her hand down.My mother spoke a little German," says Simmons, "but she didn't say so. That was the reason why she was chosen. When she was doing her hair, she was tasked with cutting the hair of a Nazi officer’s wife. She obeyed. She watched. She remembered. In a world built to break her, she endured quietly.Others raised theirs They were never seen again.

After the war, she started over.

She moved to Israel.

Had a son.

In 1958, she boarded a ship to New York with nothing but her child and her will to survive.

They settled in Queens, and she worked day and night to give her son a better life.

But Gene never forgot where he came from.

“Everything I am,” he once said, “is because of my mother.”

Flora passed away in 2018 at 93 years old.

She never chased the spotlight.

She didn’t need to.

Because her story is etched in the strength of every survivor.

In the silence that saved her.

And in the son who lit the world on fire—with her love behind him.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Some just never stop fighting.

                                ( 1940-20?? )

Searched,Compiled and Illustrated by Tejinder Kamboj