Samuel Schanzer reached a milestone that most don’t: he turned 104 years old on Wednesday, April 18. His storied life required a lot of extra pages. “I have more wrinkles than he does,” his [...]
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
An Associated Press story reports that the arrest of 17 people on charges of fraudulent Holocaust survival stories has cost some residents of Brighton Beach and other parts of Brooklyn access to benefits paid by [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
A fund dedicated to collecting reparations for Holocaust survivors from the German government was defrauded more than $42 million in the span of 16 years. The 17 indicted were charged with using faked identification, falsified [...]
Thursday, October 21, 2010
At the same time, Schwarz also knew that her family was quite different from those of other kids: her Jewish parents had both come to the United States after growing up in the midst of World War II and experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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