Delayed by Nazis, bar mitzvah to now be celebrated by 89-year-old Holocaust survivor

Harold Katz didn't require a crash course in Hebrew before his bar mitzvah next week in Wilmette. He started preparing 76 years ago, and his skills never got rusty.

Katz, 89, who lives in a North Side retirement home, was to have celebrated the occasion in Czechoslovakia back in 1941. But that...