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One Survivor, Two Identities: The Kurt Lewin Collection

Kurt Lewin, son of the Chief Rabbi of Lvov, survived the Holocaust by hiding as a young monk. In the fourth episode of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Curators’ Corner, archivist Rebecca Erbelding presents Lewin’s story through a collection of documents he donated to the Museum, which is rare in its ability to show the changing identities of a person before, during and after being in hiding.

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