A child survivor of the Holocaust now living in Florida finally will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah. Ben Fainer was nine when the Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939. The only member of his family to survive, Fainer was interred in Nazi concentration camps, including Buchenwald and Flossenburg, during World War II.
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