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