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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Gino Spocchia

Holocaust survivor sisters die days apart in Alabama: ‘They were always together’

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Two nonagenarian sisters who survived the Holocaust have died within days of one another in Alabama, their adopted home.

The Alabama Holocaust Education Center said on Tuesday that Ruth Scheuer Siegler, 95, died on Saturday after her sister, Ilse Scheuer Nathan, died 10 days earlier at age 98.

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