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4/21/2009
Survivors tell their stories for Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Rachel McGrath
Ventura County Star
On the last day of the Jewish celebration of Passover in 1944, the Germans came for Marilyn Katz and her family at their home in the Hungarian countryside.
The teenager and her family were among an estimated 14,000 Jews from the city of Kosice and the surrounding area who were transported to concentration camps when Germany invaded Hungary toward the end of World War II.
For Katz, now 81 and a resident of the retirement community of University Village in Thousand Oaks, the memories of what happened are seared into the core of her being...read more