At Republic Airport, Holocaust survivors and WWII veterans implore future generations to "Never Forget."
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- Joe Dowd
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Tuesday, April 10
Levittown's Thea Rumstein looked back nearly seven decades and recalled the irony of her starvation while cherry blossoms scented the spring air. It was just another day amid unspeakable horror, another morning to survive the iron grip of Nazi captivity. She remembers standing emaciated and nearly naked, hearing distant gunfire and explosions. At the time, the 16-year-old didn't think much of it. "We were just trying to survive another day," she said Monday. The Americans had just busted through the last remnants of nearby German resistance. A tank appeared outside the barbed wire. Then another, and another. The armored vehicles of khaki green bore a single white star. Atop their mounts were America G.I.s, stunned by the horror they had …
An exhibit at The Manetto Hill Jewish Center captures those who disappeared and suffered Nazi atrocities.
Ludmila Lowidtova's bright eyes seem to smile at you across time. She was only 20 when she died at Birkenau at the hands of the Nazis. Zdenka Bergmannova's timeless beauty was captured in black and white. She was in her early 30s when she died at Trawniki, a Nazi forced-labor camp, in 1942. There's a pencil sketch of a distinguished gentleman in a dark thin tie and a drawing of a young woman in a pretty blue blouse. The images will haunt you; They are of regular people living ordinary lives: little kids and young adults, an old man holding an infant, caught up in a world gone mad. One day, the Nazis came and tried to make these people disappear forever. The Nazis failed: In this they were beaten by mere school children and vanquished by …
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S. Naftol
5:35 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012
I am sorry that I didn't know about this event- I would have been honored to have attended. more ›