A hit-and-run driver trying to elude the police killed a 77-year-old Holocaust survivor who had filed a lawsuit for slave labor compensation. Charlotte Lenga of Encino, Calif., a native of Czechoslovakia, had survived Auschwitz, Bergen- Belsen and months of slave labor in German factories.
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