In February 1942, a 12-year-old girl escaped a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Belarus. A champion swimmer, she coated herself in goose fat and swam under ice to evade guards before fleeing into a ...
MATTOON — Sidney “Sevek” Finkel was offering hugs and expressions of love at Lake Land College on Wednesday while signing his memoir of the Holocaust. It was a jovial time because tears had been ...