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Hearing from Holocaust survivors, while we still can

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February 7, 2014

At the end of my first year of law school, I had the opportunity to work on legal issues surrounding Holocaust reparations still being paid by the German government. It was an incredible experience, recounted “>living a new nightmare” of poverty, and reparations would help, albeit not enough. Moreover, the remaining survivors in 2010 were no younger than 65; most were in their 80s and 90s, many with flagging health. I knew that survivors — not a survivor, but any survivors — would not be around much longer. And I wanted to hear their stories one more time.

I was reminded of this last week when Tablet published ““>look and listen here.

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