Jeanette Friedman is the founder of The Wordsmithy, a publishing company that helps Holocaust survivors write and publish their memoirs
Jeanette Friedman
By Jeanette Friedman
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My daughter is a nurse in Teaneck, New Jersey, an early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. My daughter-in-law is a nurse in an upstate New York town where hospitals are raided for protective gear and ventilators because it hasn’t hit hard yet. My go-to doctor and my husband’s cardiologist are in Teaneck. My neighbor works…
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