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Across the country, healthcare workers and advocates are brainstorming ways to get the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of the people who need it most. In Arizona, organizers launched a grassroots effort to vaccinate the state’s Holocaust survivors. An estimated 55 survivors, along with their spouses, partners and caretakers, have been vaccinated through a collaborative program run by the Phoenix Holocaust Association.
KNAU reported on this mission to vaccinate a population that’s survived war, displacement and genocide.
Frieda Allweiss was eight years old when she and her mother fled their home in Poland to escape the Nazis.
“We traveled all the way to Uzbekistan to get away from Hitler,” Allweiss remembers. “Traveled many thousands of miles to get away. And it was not easy, you know.”