Giving Shelter to a Holocaust Survivor: Kerstin Ringdahl and Fran Lane Rasmus

Kerstin Ringdahl (L) and Fran Lane Rasmus (R) STORYCORPS / STORYCORPS

Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27. During World War II, Sweden offered asylum to more than eight thousand Danish Jews. Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27.  During World War II, Sweden offered asylum to more than eight thousand Danish Jews.  Kerstin Ringdahl, born in in Sweden in 1935, tells her friend Fran Lane Rasmus about her own family’s experience taking in a Jewish refugee.

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Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma has been around for 70 years. Physicians there are now attempting to form a union. (Credit: Lauren Gallup // NWPB)

Tacoma physicians are trying to unionize

Joining a growing trend, physicians at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma are trying to unionize.
“ We really want to be able to have a voice, have a seat at the table and work with them and be a little bit more collaborative. And we think this unionization effort is the best way to do that,” said  Derek Tam, a pediatric emergency physician at the hospital.

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