Brooklyn, NY - New Sweet Home For Disabled Holocaust Survivor

Brooklyn, NY - There's a happy ending in sight for a disabled Holocaust survivor who has been living as a virtual prisoner in his Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY home.

After two years of legal wrangling, Chaim Indig, 83, a survivor of Auschwitz, who uses a wheelchair, and his wife, Sara, is set to move into a handicapped-accessible co-op in Premier House - a luxury building whose board initially had turned him away.
"He indicated he's excited about the move," said his daughter, Shevie Sinensky, who must speak for Indig because Parkinson's disease has robbed him of the ability to talk.
The Borough Park house he's vacating has 10 steps outside the front door, so he can't get out without a stretcher and two men to carry it. Now "Mr. Indig gets to live the rest of his life in freedom and peace, without the bars of his Holocaust prison or the steps of his house," said Adam Bailey, who had been the Indigs' lawyer.

Son-in-law Gary Sinensky bought the $412,500 co-op on Ocean Avenue for Indig after a legal settlement with the Housing board. The seller was board member Solomon Rokowsky, who purchased the flat after Indig was turned down in his bid to buy it.

The Indigs and Gary Sinensky had sued Rokowsky and other board members, alleging discrimination against Indig because of his disability.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice David Schmidt dismissed the discrimination charge. But an appeals court reversed that decision, and Schmidt pressed everyone to make peace. "The judge used his good offices to bridge the gap between the two parties," said Israel Goldberg, a lawyer for the board. "There's no animus."