A Czech town honored a 75-year-old survivor for her work in helping to educate the Czech public about the Holocaust. Hana Greenfield, who worked as a slave laborer in Germany and survived the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, was made an honorary citizen of Terezin, where a Jewish ghetto was located during World War II.
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