Friday, 3 May 2013

Her secret Jewish identity

There is a list of horrors rattling around inside Mary Gale’s head.
The 86-year-old tells me the story of her life, starting from the happy beginning as a girl growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in Lodz, Poland, a family that, like so many other Jewish families would be torn apart by the horrors of the Holocaust.
But Mary Gale has spent the past 70 years living with a burdensome secret, a lie she no longer wishes to conceal. She can pinpoint exactly when the lie began because it had to begin somewhere in order for her to survive.
Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/02/miriam-zimmerman-kept-her-jewish-identity-secret-for-70-years/

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