Holocaust Memorial Day: 'British citizenship saved my mother'
BBC News By Peter Crutchley image captionElsie Mendle risked her life to save family and other Jewish people "When the Nazis arrived to arrest her family in Oslo in 1942 to send them to the gas chamber in Auschwitz, my Jewish mother's life was saved only because she was a British citizen." On Holocaust Memorial Day - 27 January - Lill Saether has been reflecting on her mother's legacy and the suffering her family endured. Her Jewish great-grandparents, Abraham Simon and Rhoda Yetta Freeman, and their eight children, including Lill's grandmother Florrie, came to Newry in about 1890 from Kaunas...
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