An endeavor that culminated Tuesday as more than 100 schoolchildren, dignitaries, city officials, and Holocaust survivors gathered on Boston Common....
In her famous diary, Anne Frank described the tree as a symbol of hope for her and her family as they hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam annex for two years during World War II. She died in 1945 in a German concentration camp.
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Finkel, now 15, said she felt a special connection to Frank after reading her diary....
Boston Common was chosen for its rich history of celebrating democracy and its other monuments to liberty, said Rebecca Faulkner, special projects manager for The Anne Frank Center USA.
Standing quietly among the throng of spectators was Rosian Zerner of Newton, who grew up in the Kovno Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Lithuania. When she was 6, she escaped the ghetto when her parents dug a hole underneath a fence and told her to run while German soldiers were changing shifts....
Where go? Hide out wolves during most brutal winters in centuries, so brutal it brought the German war machine to a halt and was the main factor in its defeat?
Ludwick Szymanski, 81, a Boston doctor who as a boy during the Holocaust hid in the Polish countryside and in Warsaw to avoid capture, watched the ceremony from the grass....
Yeah, whatever.
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Sorry, I'm just tired of the lies and the agenda-pushing surrounding them.
I hope you did not.
