Eighteen former child refugees who escaped from the Nazis celebrated their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs in London. The mother of one — 99-year-old Irma Faith, whose son Sigi, 76, was among the bnei mitzvah — told London’s Jewish Chronicle that the event was “wonderful.”
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