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Holocaust survivor Evelyn Pike Rubin, of Jericho, came to Calhoun High School recently to speak with students about her wartime experiences. Her family hid out in Shanghai to escape the Nazi Gestapo.
From 'Ghetto Shanghai' to L.I.
The train trip still haunts Evelyn Pike Rubin more than 75 years later. It was the winter of 1939. Pike Rubin, an only child who was 8½ at the time, was steaming from Breslau, in Nazi Germany, to Naples, Italy, where she was to board a cruise ship, the Hakusaki Maru, bound for Japanese-occupied Shanghai. more
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Dolores Persky, of Wantagh, is now in remission for the second time.
The long road to recovery
Dolores Persky, of Wantagh, and Pat Goodovitch, of Seaford, believe their battles with breast cancer have made them stronger. Although each woman has taken a different path, both are alive to share their story. more
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Cancer survivor and television star Fran Drescher was given a lifetime achievement award on Oct. 7 in Baldwin for raising cancer awareness. Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, left, and Dr. Roger Simpson, president of the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, presented her with the award.
Lifetime achievement for the ‘flashy girl from Flushing’
Fran Drescher is best known for her television sitcom role in which her character was charged with keeping things tidy at the Sheffields’ home in “The Nanny.” Now, as a cancer survivor for 14 years, Drescher has dedicated her life to motivating people to tidy up their own homes by removing items that contain carcinogens. more
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Emmanuel Habimana, a Rwandan filmmaker and lecturer who as a young boy in 1994 survived the Rwandan Genocide, addressed students in March at Calhoun High School. He was a guest speaker in social studies teacher Dr. David Goldberg’s “Voices of the Past” class, which deals with human rights violations in the 20th and 21st centuries.
At Calhoun, genocide survivor urges tolerance, peace
When Emmanuel Habimana was a young boy, people often stood outside his family’s home, singing songs of hatred and catcalling at all hours so that those inside could not sleep, he recently told students at Calhoun High School. These memories date from 1992, Habimana said, when he was 7 years old. The harassment of his family — day and night — was so regular and frightening that Habimana asked his parents, “Did you choose to be a Tutsi? Why are we being called snakes, cockroaches?” more
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Healing the gaping wound that Sandy left
The eight students and one teacher shuffled into the center of what was left of the dining room of a red-brick ranch home on a canal in Long Beach’s East End last Friday. more
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This month the focus is on breast cancer
Nassau County has one of the nation’s highest rates of breast cancer, and more than 1,200 women in the county were diagnosed with the disease from 2004 to 2008, according to the State Department of Health’s New York State Cancer Registry. more
A man of ‘respect and dignity’
Oceanside resident Peter Stone, a Holocaust survivor who used to speak to Long Island students about his experiences, died on April 6, of lung disease. He was 80. Stone was born on May 13, 1931, … more
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Bill Halleran at the Merrick Legion’s Veterans Day ceremony in 2010.
Bill Halleran, Pearl Harbor survivor, dies at 93
Bill Halleran, a U.S. Navy veteran and survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died on Friday, Dec. 9. He was 93. more
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Death, beer and kindness
The kindest person I ever met was a drunk Irishman on a street corner late one night in June, 2005. more
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Black & Red members were among 200 motorcyclists who took part in the event.
Motorcycles and murals in Lynbrook
Several dozen motorcyclists revved up their engines to raise money for the first annual Support a Veteran event in Lynbrook’s Greis Park on Sunday. The event featured food, friends, and 200 … more
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