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Hedi holds a picture of her parents, one of the few mementos she has from her family. All but one brother were murdered at Auschwitz. Photo: Paul Lang Hedi Frankl pretended to be a Christian teenager in a small town in Hungary to save her life during the Holocaust. But she was found out and […]
Enduring Kristallnacht Anne Kelemen, now of New York City, was a girl of 13 on Nov. 9, 1938, when her fatherโs textiles shop in Vienna was ransacked and destroyed by brown-shirted youths. Culminating months of a deteriorating environment for Jewish residents of the Austrian capital, Kristallnacht โ โthe night of broken glassโ โ marked an ominous […]
Isaac and Rosa Blum survived the Holocaust in a Polish forced-labor camp, making bullets for the Nazis. Now both in their early 90s, they credit the homecare assistance they receive from a New York City social welfare agency, through funding from the Claims Conference, as the primary reason they are able to still live independently […]
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