{"id":26939,"date":"2025-11-03T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26939\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:11:29","slug":"exclusive-92-year-old-holocaust-survivor-votes-for-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26939\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | 92-year-old Holocaust survivor votes for first time ever –"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 92-year-old Holocaust survivor in The Bronx recently voted for the first time ever \u2014 saying she cast a ballot for mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo to try to stop front-runner Zohran Mamdani.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never voted before. I\u2019m voting because I believe that Mamdani is an antisemite with dangerous fiscal policies,\u201d Galina Guterman told The Post, speaking through a Russian interpreter after voting at the Riverdale YMCA.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t trust him,\u201d Guterman said of Democratic Socialist Mamdani. \u201cHe has not proven to be the person that cares about everyone and cares about me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holocaust survivor Galina Guterman, 92, voted for the first time ever in the Bronx on Nov. 2, 2025. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

Guterman cast her ballot for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a bid to stop Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n

As a child, Guterman fled to Siberia after the Nazis invaded Russia.<\/p>\n

She remained in Russia after the war and would later become a pathologist.<\/p>\n

She said heavy-handed socialist policies are the reason she and her family then fled the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

A summer home she owned just outside of Moscow was torched by an arsonist in a case of antisemitism, a family rep said.<\/p>\n

Guterman accused Mamdani of being an \u201cantisemite with dangerous fiscal policies.\u201d James Keivom<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I listen to what [Mamdani] says about \u2018globalize the intifada\u2019, that is not kind-hearted,\u201d Guterman said.<\/p>\n

Mamdani supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel <\/a>and said he backs the arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal.<\/p>\n

He has said he\u2019s not an antisemite for promoting Palestinian rights and opposing the \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The Democratic-front runner also said he now discourages the phrase \u201cglobalize the intifada<\/a>,\u201d a rallying cry that many believe is a call to commit violence and kill Jews.<\/p>\n

But Guterman said Mamdani is too much of a risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuomo is just what the city needs,\u201d she said. \u201cCuomo is trustworthy, real and honest, Cuomo is someone I trust. He is a good person, and he\u2019s honest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 92-year-old Holocaust survivor in The Bronx recently voted for the first time ever \u2014 saying she cast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[80,3862,128,15400,57,9,24,63,563,87,129,131,130,58,82],"class_list":["post-26939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-antisemitism","tag-bronx","tag-holocaust","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-politics","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}