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Holocaust Survivor Tells Her Story at Teaneck High

On Thursday morning, November 29, Holocaust survivor Fran Malkin, 80, of West Orange, relayed her saga of survival during the Holocaust to 285 rapt Teaneck High School students. After her Polish town of Koval was invaded by the Nazis, the men, including Malkin’s father, were taken to a local brick factory and killed. This left Malkin, 2 years old, and her mother alone and in search of a hiding place. Together with 15 other Jews, they were miraculously taken into the home of a local Christian woman who hid them all for 20 months above her pigsty and under her kitchen, at great peril to her own life and the life of her daughter. Ten years ago, after many years of silence, Malkin and her own daughter returned to Koval, with the granddaughters of the Christian savior who had known nothing of their grandmother’s heroism, and retraced the story. A niece from Israel joined the trip and made an award-winning documentary entitled “No. 4 Street of Our Lady,” which can be viewed for free on vimeo.

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