A petite, vivacious woman of about 45 glanced at my press pass. “I don’t know if you’re Jewish or not,” she told me, “but put in your story that I was shot eight times by the Nazis, right here, but I survived!” She pointed under her right arm. “I can show you the scars .. just write that I am here.” She wouldn’t give me her name.
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