January 27, 2017

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Remembering The Survivors

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A candle is lit at a ceremony marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

A candle is lit at a ceremony marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we revisit the 2014 conversations between Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson and Holocaust survivors Margie Oppenheimer and Edith Stern.

Oppenheimer and Stern now both live in The Selfhelp Home in Chicago, a place where survivors who came to the U.S. have lived since the end of World War II.

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