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Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall riffs on life as she knows it.

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A Mother Who Prevailed at Auschwitz

March 23, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Stones left on the wall of the Dohany Street Synagogue, Budapest, in memory of Jews lost in the Shoah. Photo by Barbara Newhall

When Ernie Hollander’s family arrived at Auschwitz in 1944, his mother was ordered to the right, his sisters to the left. Read more.

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