Elane Norych Geller

I knew Elane for decades from working in a favorite women´s clothing boutique she shopped in LA/Studio City. She wasn´t just a customer she was a friend and even came to my engagement party. Her stories of her experience as a young child were horrifying and emotional. She was the epitome of a survivor. One of my store picture of her in the middle.

Elane connected my mom and me to some of the best doctors at Ucla and helped bridge the language barrier / doctor jargon so my mom was able to understand what the doctors were saying. I always admired and respected her stories of survival, perseverance, and wisdom and am sad to learn of her passing. I hope she is at peace.

I am an 18-year-old, I knew Elane personally and had many meals with her. She was a sweet, kind and strong woman who was not afraid to tell her story. I miss you Elane.

You will be remembered. I will never forget all of the times you came to our school and spoke. In my eyes, you are a hero and an inspiration. Thank you so much and be at peace.

I think of Elane often. I knew her for decade's as she shopped in a boutique I worked for she became my friend. I will always have her in my thoughts and prayers as now she has been reunited with her family she lost so horrifically and tragically. This is just one of the pictures I took of her with two other customers/friends Pam to the left of Elane also has passed.

I remember Elane Norych Geller, of blessed memory, as a devoted Holocaust Survivor Speaker at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance and as a dear friend. For over three decades, she inspired her audiences of students, educators, and law enforcement professionals with her powerful personal testimony of courage and resilience, strength and dignity. Her message was, "We are human beings first, and when we understand that, the world will be a better place.” May her memory forever be a...