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Behrend fled Germany in 1939 when he was only 12-years-old. He describes the horrors he witnessed during Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) in his memoir and documentary 'Rebuilt from Broken Glass: A German Jewish Life Remade in America.'

Behrend fled Germany in 1939 when he was only 12-years-old. He describes the horrors he witnessed during Kristallnacht in his memoir and documentary "Rebuilt from Broken Glass: A German Jewish Life Remade in America."Many around the world and here at home in the Greater Philadelphia Area are grieving the 30 day milestone, which is a symbolic period of mourning in the Jewish faith.

"I am alive among six million that were murdered," said Fred Behrend, 97, Holocaust survivor. "They just took 200 innocent people enjoying a concert, rounding them up with a purpose, original purpose of killing them." Behrend fled Germany in 1939 when he was only 12-years-old. He describes the horrors he witnessed during Kristallnacht in his memoir and documentary "Rebuilt from Broken Glass: A German Jewish Life Remade in America.""How would you feel if you saw your school in flames? We came just in time to see the parents of these children grabbed by the storm troopers, dragged down the stairs, thrown into trucks and taken away," said Behrend.

There are still more than 200 innocent civilians of all ages who were taken hostage during the October 7 attack.Shdaimah's stepmother Ditza Heiman, 84, is the core of their family. They learned she was kidnapped after seeing her in a Hamas propaganda video online. "We don’t know what happened to her since. We don’t know where she is, we don’t know if she’s getting what she needs," said Shdaimah. "The community in the Philadelphia area has provided a lot of love and support so they help us get through this."that I have read and agree

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