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The Precarious Nature of Being Jewish

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What's New About the Holocaust?

My family fled from Belgium in 1940. My mom was six weeks old, put on the back of a pickup truck and driven through fascist Spain. They traveled at night because Jews weren't allowed to go through Spain at all. And they ended up in Lisbon and were able to get on a ship to the United States. It was actually one of the last ships to the U.S. during the war. So there's that and that made me, of course, interested in the whole subject.

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