Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in Hebrew school.
It’s rare that books the Nazis stole from Jews during World War II end up with their original owners. There aren’t many actual Holocaust survivors alive anymore.
“This is really special in 2025 to be able to do this,” said Karen Franklin, director of outreach at JewishGen and director of family services at the Leo Baeck Institute, both in New York.
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