New Hampshire Holocaust Survivors Speak

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By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, September 29, 2004.
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New Hampshire Holocaust Survivors Speak Out - A new documentary, Telling Their Stories: New Hampshire Holocaust Survivors Speak Out tells the story of four Holocaust survivors, their trials during WW2 Europe and their journeys that brought them from their home countries of Germany, Poland and Hungry to New Hampshire. We?ll hear some of their stories as well as look at the importance of keeping this time in history, now 60-years old, alive. Laura?s guests are Stephen Lewy, featured in the documentary, he?s a Holocaust survivor living in Manchester who escaped Germany, joined the US Army, and participated in the liberation of Buchenwald in 1945. Paul Vincent, Associate Professor and Director of the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at Keene State College. Thomas Weisshaus, A Holocaust survivor living in Exeter who was one of the thousands of Hungarian-Jews helped by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and David DeArville, Director of Telling Their Stories.

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