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Author Retraces Journey Of A Holocaust Survivor

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The identities of prisioners in Nazi consentration camps were reduced to numbers. Danka Kornreich Brandel was known in Auschwitz as 2779.

The identities of prisioners in Nazi consentration camps were reduced to numbers. Danka Kornreich Brandel was known in Auschwitz as 2779.

Heather Dune with Rena Kornreich Gelissen. Dune

Heather Dune with Rena Kornreich Gelissen. Dune

a Hampton Bays resident

a Hampton Bays resident

co-authored the memoir Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz.

co-authored the memoir Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz.

By Loren Christie on Mar 19, 2012
Small acts of kindness poked holes in the ashen skies above the concentration camps during the darkest days of World War II, lighting the way for survivors, a small group... more

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