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Article: Grandson's tribute to courage of Auschwitz survivor; WOMAN WHO ENDURED THREE CONCENTRATION CAMPS TO ATTEND CEREMONY.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 25, 2005
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Byline: RICHARD EDWARDS
THIS WEEK 18-year-old David Wagner will help read a roll call of the names of some of the millions of Jews who died in Nazi concentration camps.
He will be speaking at a service on Holocaust Memorial Day in front of, among others, the Queen and Tony Blair.
But the reason the north London teenager feels so strongly about the issue is that his grandmother was imprisoned in one of the most notorious camps and barely escaped with her life.
For more than 40 years, Freda Wineman, 81, refused to talk about her time in Auschwitz and two other camps.
She fled to Britain after the war and managed to build a new ...