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Mark Z. Barabak

Mark Z. Barabak: 'You're stepping on the graves of my grandparents': Politicians open old wounds with Nazi talk

Esther Finder has borne witness to the worst of humanity. Parents bleeding out as their children watched. Children murdered in front of their parents.

The stories she's heard — of cruelty and degeneracy, bravery and ingenuity — stagger the imagination. As a teenager, Finder's father survived a dozen Nazi concentration camps by posing, variously, as a doctor, electrician and furrier. One time he hid inside a man-size cauldron.

In all, Finder, a retired psychology professor, has recorded the testimony of nearly 250 survivors of the Holocaust.

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