She’s seen more history than most people have ever even read, survived the horrors of the Holocaust and made a life for herself, and eventually her family in New York City.
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By Tyler Marko
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11/9/17
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Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas recounted a story of a 17-year-old girl who defaced a building with a swastika, and after being educated on what the swastika symbolizes wrote a letter to the judge adjudicating her case.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/21/17
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When I met Nelson Melgar, the only thing we thought united us was a shared concern for our community. We met by chance at an event at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County . . .
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7/20/17
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Bernie Igielski and Rachel Gleitman, members of the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC in Cedarhurst, were once again the guest speakers at the Floral Park/Bellrose School District’s Tolerance Day, an event both Five Towns residents have attended all 10 years its been held.
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6/16/17
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Sophie Riegel, a 10th-grader at Hewlett High School and Hewlett resident, was given the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County’s Friedlander Upstander Award for standing up to bullying or intolerance.
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6/12/17
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Filled with rigorous Advanced Placement exam preparation, off-campus fairs and activities, special events, and guest speakers, these past few weeks have been livelier than ever at Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School.
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By Amanda Schorr
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5/18/17
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As I write this, I am setting sail from Hong Kong, on the South China Sea, north toward the Taiwan Strait, although who can say for sure?
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5/4/17
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In honor of Holocaust victims, Sruli Fruchter, a junior at Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys in Woodmere, and several other students produced “In Living Memory,” a journal that included articles recounting the stories of relatives and other tales.
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5/4/17
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Seventy-two years ago to the date that Marion Blumenthal’s family — her father Walter; her mother, Ruth; and Marion and her brother, Albert — were liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, the Hewlett resident, now Marion Lazan, will be the keynote speaker at a Five Towns Holocaust Remembrance Day event.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/20/17
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In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a panel discussion was held and a photo exhibition entitled: “The Jewish Refugee Camps in Cyprus: 1945-1948” is on display at Temple Israel of Lawrence.
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By Diana Colapietro
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2/1/17
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