Speaking out to prevent another Holocaust
10 November 2018 |
5:00 pm
As a child, Dora Roth survived the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig, where an estimated 60,000 people perished. Reviving painful memories, she has made it her mission to speak out on behalf of the many who did not survive.
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