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Like many students, Michael Gruenbaum had a part-time job in college. To earn spending money while studying at MIT in the early 1950s, he worked at the school’s Lewis Music Library for 90 cents an hour. But while most other students came to MIT after four years of high school, Mr. Gruenbaum came to MIT [...]  Lev and Bronislava Friedman don’t remember much from their experiences during the Holocaust, as both were young children in the Soviet Union whose families fled ahead of the advancing Nazi army. But they do remember being cold, hungry, and fearful of what the future could bring. Bronislava was born in Uman, Ukraine, in 1937. In 1941, Bronislava’s [...] Susan Beer was just 19 when she was tossed into a Budapest prison during WWII. It was there that Susan Beer she saw another young woman, dressed in fatigues, doing what appeared to be jumping Jacks in her cell. Susan would encounter this woman again in the prison’s courtyard and find out that she was a [...] Going beyond her duty of visiting Mascha for an hour for a friendly visit, Caroline decided to stay a little longer in order to make sure she can help the 96 year old survivor light the Chanukah Menorah. Caroline knew that Mascha does not have a home attendant for weekends, and so she would need assistance in lighting the candles and performing this special Chanukah [...] Mona Golabek playing in Steinway Hall, as she tells her mother's story. Sitting at the piano bench, Lisa Jura would tell her daughter that each piece of music tells its own story, you just have to listen to what it is and then she would weave the stories into the movements – the stories of [...] |
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