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Coffee in Amsterdam with Anne Frank’s Best Friend

Next month is the 70th anniversary of the death of Anne Frank. The exact date that she died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945 is not known other than it is in the first few days of March.

Survivor: Stella Esformes

It was 1944, and Stella Esformes — then Sterina Haleoua — was looking forward to watching the national Independence Day parade in Larissa, Greece.

Yoya’s promise

“You must promise me that you will tell this story, what happened here,” the rabbi said to the bar mitzvah boy, Joachim “Yoya” Joseph. They had just finished the ceremony in a small barrack in Bergen-Belsen, where they covered the windows so the Nazi guards would not see them. The rabbi, Simon Dasberg, a community rabbi from Holland, pressed a little Torah scroll in the young boy’s hands as he spoke to him.

Films: Romantic triangle survives in the midst of hell

\”I\’m a very special Holocaust survivor,\” Jack Polak says. \”I was in the camps with my wife and my girlfriend, and, believe me, it wasn\’t easy.\” This may sound like a line from the new genre of Holocaust films with humor, but Polak (who is Jacob on his birth certificate, Jack in America, Jaap to his Dutch friends and Jab to his wife) is just stating the facts in the documentary feature, \”Steal a Pencil for Me.\”

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