Every now and again, out of the blue, you meet someone you’d like to be when you finally grow up. Towards the end of last year I met a woman whose joy in life was so charismatic, I couldn’t stop staring at her. Judy Glickman Lauder, an 81-year-old photographer, is the most smiley person I have met — it’s the only way to describe her. At the time I thought, cynically, well of course she’s smiley, she’s one of the richest people in the world; I’d be smiley, too, if I didn’t have a financial care. But after spending a couple of hours at lunch with Judy, a woman whose 30-year mission has been to document Holocaust death camps, I realised she was something special,…

Source: The Times April 06, 2019 23:03 UTC