Born Feiga-Chasse Judelowitz in 1922, Lebovits was 19 when Nazis invaded her hometown of Libau, in Latvia. She survived the Libau ghetto and five concentration and work camps.

The Poway attack, which took place six months to the day after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, is being treated as a hate crime.

Gilbert-Kaye, a member of the Bat Harim group of Hadassah San Diego, jumped in front of the Chabad synagogue’s rabbi, protecting him from the gunman’s bullets.