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Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime

Brutal blows from police nightsticks sent women to local hospitals and to court

the remnants of the greatest prewar library in Europe were split between two major institutions: the secular YIVO in the United States and the rabbinic library of Hechal Shlomo in Israel

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Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Meryl Frank Yiddish Learning Hanni Kohn knows she mustListen to our podcast with author Meryl Frank A thrilling mystery woven into a beautifully constructed family memoir: Meryl Franks journey to seek the truth about a beloved and revolutionary cousin, a celebrated actress in Vilna before World War II, and to answer the question of how the next generation should honor the memory of the Holocaust. As a child, Meryl Frank was the chosen inheritor of family remembrance. Her aunt Mollie, a formidable and