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EndNotes archive for Feb. 3, 2012

FRIDAY, FEB. 3, 2012

Eva Lassman stands next to the Spokane Community Holocaust Memorial at Temple Beth Shalom in 2005. Lassman, a Holocaust survivor, died in 2011 at 91. She spent the last decades of her life talking to schoolchildren about the Holocaust. In “Eva’s Song,” a poem about her life written by Michael Gurian, Lassman says: “I am a Jew, and Jews were born to plant flowers even in the garden of a thousand sobs.” (File)

Eva's Song: Forever wisdom

Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Shalom, writer Michael Gurian will read his oratory poem "Eva's Song" written in the voice of Holocaust survivor, Eva Lassman, who died a year ago at 91. The poem is stunningly beautiful with wisdom gems all over the…

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