Helena Weinrauch has worn the same blue sweater to every Passover Seder for the last 75 years. It’s the sweater she wore to her first Seder after surviving a Nazi concentration camp—and it tells a story of persecution, survival and friendship.
It’s the sweater she wore to her first Passover seder after surviving a Nazi concentration camp, and it tells a story of persecution, survival and friendship.
In 1940, while Helena was at work, her parents and older sister -- along with 300 other Jewish families, were rounded up. She never saw them again. Helena's boss helped her get a new identity posing as a German, and she escaped to the city for Krakow. Helena was saved once more from a firing squad in 1943 in Plaszow, an interim stop before Auschwitz, this time by a Jewish police officer whose sister Helena had helped earlier.
The sweater -- which Dubov described to “Good Morning America” as “gorgeous,” was knitted for Helena by Ann Rothman, a young woman and Auschwitz survivor who she met in the Sigtuna hospital in Sweden, where she spent time recovering.
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