Shulamit Lack, 83, who risked her life to help other Jews escape Nazi-occupied Hungary as a teenager, survived two concentration camps, fought in the Israeli army and then forged a new life in America, died Monday, Dec. 3, 2007.
“Shula went through incredible trials in her life and came through it without being bitter,” said filmmaker Martha Lubell, who told Lack’s story in a 2000 documentary, “Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust,” told Newsday. (more…)
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More than 50 million Nazi-era records documenting the fates of 17 million Holocaust victims are now open to the public, 60 years after the archives housing them was created.
The opening of the International Tracing Service records had to wait until the 11 nations that own the archives altered their treaty with the International Committee of the Red Cross, which manages the documents, Deutsche Welle reported. The records will help thousands trace the fates of lost relatives and friends. (more…)
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