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Jane Fonda to host Holocaust event on sexual violence
Jewish Journal
October 22, 2012
Jane Fonda will host an event in Los Angeles focusing on sexual violence during the Holocaust. More than 200 people are expected for the invitation-only event on Nov. 8 at the Ray Kurtzman Theater. The event is sponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation and Remember the Women Institute.
Survivor: Sonja Telias
Jane Ulman
July 18, 2012
From the upstairs bedroom she shared with four girls, Sonja Blits heard the soldiers marching through the quiet village of Zaandijk, outside Amsterdam, where she was being hidden by a generous Dutch family. \”Remember, stay below the windowsill,\” Moe Haidel, the other girls\’ mother, reminded her. But, drawn to the unusual noise, Sonja stood up and peeked through the curtain. Her eyes fixed on the SS troops\’ black boots making clicking noises on the brick street. That sound continued to haunt her.
Survivor: Gitta Seidner Ginsberg
Jane Ulman
June 6, 2012
Gitta Seidner — known at the time by the Christian name Jannine Spinette — was abruptly awakened around 4:30 a.m. by a large commotion outside her farmhouse bedroom in Waterloo, Belgium. \”No, no, no. What do you want with my goddaughter?\” she heard her godmother, Alice Spinette, say. SS soldiers then kicked open the door and pulled the crying girl from her bed. \”She\’s not Jewish,\” Alice insisted. The soldiers didn\’t listen. They ordered Alice to get Gitta dressed and drove them to SS headquarters in Brussels.
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