Search for the past uncovers extraordinary moral values: Visit to

From: Cleveland Jewish News | Date: September 4, 1998 | Copyright information


Cleveland Jewish News

09-04-1998

Search for the past uncovers extraordinary moral values: Visit to Holocaust heroes confirms exemplary efforts.

STUART MUSZYNSKI Special to the CJN

Twenty-six years ago I started a search into my family's past. My grandmother had just died and I decided to write about her life and the relationship that she and my parents had with four Polish families who saved them during the Holocaust.

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