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Gurwin residents: #WeRemember

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Seven residents of the Gurwin Jewish Fay J. Lindner Residence in Commack participated in the recent #WeRemember global social media campaign on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Gurwin residents, including survivors of the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz camps, posed with “#WeRemember” and “I Remember” signs, some fulfilling promises to family members who perished in the Shoah, to “live to tell the story”; others were eager to participate in a remembrance project with an international reach.

“My father told me to do everything I could to survive, to get out and tell the world what was happening,” said Sally Birnbaum, an Auschwitz survivor,