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Holocaust survivor shares her story and a message of hope with Riverhead students
Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal-Lazan spoke to Riverhead Middle School students about life as a Jew in 1930s Nazi Germany, her time in a Nazi death camp, and life after being freed as World War II ended. “I hope that you prevent our past from becoming your future,” she said.
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Recent appearances of swastikas evoke painful memory for Riverhead man
Recent news of swastikas being found in Riverhead school buildings brought back painful memories for a man whose family home in Riverhead was defiled with the antisemitic symbol in 1969, an event that still haunts him 54 years later.
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Aquebogue man and accomplice charged with threatening NYC synagogue after arrest in possession of weapons and swastika armband
Christopher Brown, 21, of Aquebogue, made online statements threatening to "shoot up a synagogue," according to NYC police. Brown was in possession of a large hunting knife, a ski mask and a swastika armband when he and an accomplice were arrested in Penn Station late Friday night, police said.
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Lessons of the Holocaust brought to inmates at the Suffolk County jail: Never, ever give up hope
Possessed by a desire to make sure the world understands, never forgets and never repeats the horrors of the Holocaust, Marion Blumenthal Lazan, a 79-year-old German-born Jew who spent most of her childhood in refugee camps and the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has traveled all over the world to share her story.