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  • Not ordinary at all

    Chaya Glasner, Jewish Ideas Daily|Feb 15, 2013

    United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon dedicated this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day to rescuers of Nazi victims who were not famous heroes but little-known people living “ordinary” lives. Yet some of those little-known rescuers—like Berta Davidovitz Rubinsztejn— lived anything but ordinary lives. When Berta celebrated her 90th birthday in New York this summer, one guest—Meir Brand, a white-haired grandfather of eight—made the trip from Israel. Berta calls Meir her son. He is, but not in any ordinary sense. In 1941, when B...

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