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Survivors
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News His grandfather’s Holocaust stories didn’t add up — so he set out to tell the fact-checked version
In 'Stolen Headstones,' Ari Schneider writes the official account of his family’s Holocaust story
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Fast Forward Marthe Cohn, survivor and nurse who spied for the French, dies at 105
Her story was also told in a documentary “The Accidental Spy"
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Fast Forward Helena Weinrauch, Holocaust survivor and ‘dancing angel,’ dies at 100
The beloved New Yorker was known for her late-in-life passion for ballroom dancing, as well as for wearing the same hand-knit sweater at Passover every year
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Opinion How a righteous Joe Biden honored my Holocaust survivor parents
The future president was inspired by the lives of George and Halina Wind Preston
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Fast Forward Margot Friedlander, German Holocaust survivor who landed a Vogue cover, dies at 103
Friedlander’s last public appearance came less than two days before her death
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Fast Forward Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor and co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish museum, dies at 98
The journalist and historian proposed an Eleventh Commandment: “Do not be indifferent"
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Fast Forward Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation
The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their stories
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Fast Forward His home did not survive the Eaton Fire. But one precious family heirloom did.
The Eaton Fire claimed Josh Kotler’s home but his grandmother’s menorah survived
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