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Alexis Storch, Special to the Olean Times Herald

August 13, 2014

When the sirens wait in Israel

Editor’s Note: The following essay is from a blog post (dated July 12) by Alexis Storch, who had been invited to a month-long Holocaust educator’s conference at Yad Vashem, Israel’s

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