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Article: SURVIVORS' REUNION SPEAKS TO REASON FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 30, 2003
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Byline: GEORGE F. WILL Syndicated columnist
WASHINGTON -- Among the radiating effects of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which opened here along the Mall 10 years ago, is the story of how Harry re-met Hanne. The friendship of Harry Ettlinger, now 77, and Hanne Hirsch, now 78, was interrupted for 64 years by war and genocide.
It began when he lived on the second floor and she on the fourth floor of an apartment building in Karlsruhe, Germany, where they attended the same school. The friendship was renewed last spring, thanks to two New Jersey teenagers, Jennifer Bernardes, of an immigrant family from Brazil, and Leonie Barrett, of an ...