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. Yom Hashoah

NPR

Published April 15, 1996 at 9:00 PM PDT

Today is the day of remembrance for the lives lost in the Holocaust of World War II. In this commentary, Emily Benedek recalls meeting a Holocaust survivor and and learning her explanation for why she did not perish with so many others.