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10. Thanks, this is so important & most are new to me. I knew about Wallenberg and the

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Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:22 PM

Jan 2015

courageous efforts of the Phila. Kraus family- wish HBO would have run that program longer. Just read an article in the Telegraph UK featuring three elderly women survivors who were children during the Holocaust, incredible what they went through, their strength and courage. One was saved by mentioning that she played the cello to the German woman registrar when she arrived at camp; that permitted her to serve in the band there and saved her life. Another woman and a sibling were aided by French Resistance workers who arranged for their secret, but dangerous travel out of France to safe houses in Switzerland.

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