Holocaust survivors articles
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Descendants of Holocaust survivors celebrate hidden ‘queer love story’
Lola Alexander and Ursula Finke both narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz – and after the war were inseparableUrsula Finke weighed less than 5st (31kg) and by her own description was only a “skeleton”, when Lola Alexander tracked her down in bombed-out Berlin in the last days of April 1945. Both had repeatedly, narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz, unlike many of their closest Jewish relatives.Lola and Ursula had become “friends”, as their survivors’ testimony from the 1950s put it,...
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USC Shoah Foundation to help expand program to recognize Holocaust survivors
Living Links, billed as the first national organization to engage and empower third-generation descendants of Holocaust survivors, will be able to expand the program and bolster its speaker training efforts.
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California wildfire survivor feels good about helping the survivors of Lahaina wildfires
It was a productive day -- Jonathan Pehrson had spent it consolidating items in a remote storage unit for things that didn’t fit in the ‘fifth wheel’ that he was renting near Lake Hughes in California. It was early evening nearly four years ago, Aug. 12, 2020, and he was driving home when he realized the clouds in the distance filtering the setting sun was actually smoke from a fire that was well on its way to destroying 31,000 acres of forest and leaving him homeless.