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Holocaust Photos Still Weigh Heavy for New Yorker

A Holocaust survivor remembers his "Alexandra" a resistance fighter you'll never forget.

When Bernard Gotfryd and others like him are gone, who will tell the stories? He still has the photos -- all but one: He pulled them out at the Plainview Jewish Center Wednesday, 70 years after they were taken: Grisly proof the Holocaust was real. When he was just a teen in 1940 German-occupied Poland, these pictures were more than mere history. They represented proof of Nazi genocide. Gotfryd had to tell the world. He found a way. Her name was Alexandra, and theirs is a love story for the ages. It is a fitting tale for Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Day of Remembrance Thursday set aside to recall 6 million souls who perished in the Holocaust. Survivors like Gotfryd are speaking everywhere this week to bear witness to Nazi atrocities. The temple'…

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Joe Dowd

1:58 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012

Agreed, Scott: Everyone must know these stories.   more ›

Holocaust Survivors Call for More Bullying Laws

In Glen Cove, activists said anti-Jewish sentiment that led to tragic event began with the same cyber-harassment that is sweeping the Internet today.

Holocaust survivors and relatives of those who died by the hands of Adolf Hitler called on local citizens to quit the recent trend of cyber-bullying – as they said bullying of Jews in Germany and Poland was a precursor to the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II. The survivors and the families met at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center Nassau County in Glen Cove this morning to commemorate the upcoming Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Highlighting their own stories of survival in death camps and ghettos, two Nassau County residents told of how they slept in pig sties, jumped off trains and came within "inches and minutes of death," as Annie Bleiberg put it. "I was lucky. I survived …

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