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Joan Halperin “My Sister's Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II”

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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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My Sister's Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II

The book My Sister's Eyes tells the story of the Krakowiak family from their prosperous life in Poland and Belgium through the Nazi onslaught and their perilous flight to freedom.

1–4 p.m.

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