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The Push to Vaccinate 20,000 Holocaust Survivors in New York One survivor who got her vaccine, Eva Rose, 96, said the last year has been “lousy,” but added: “I am still here, thank God.” Anne Bertolino, 96, got vaccinated at an event for Holocaust survivors in Queens. Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times April 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET A year spent hiding at home from the coronavirus has given Anne Bertolino, 96, a lot of time to dwell on the past: the anti-Semitic abuse she suffered on the streets of Hamburg as a child; the grandparents who pushed for her and her sister to leave the...