By Josh Salisbury April 8, 2021, 2:10 pm Edit
Debra s friend Karen posted a photo of the yellow candles online - without knowing one of them was in memory of Debra s aunt (left)
A writer has told of her shock after her friend was given a Yom HaShoah yellow candle with her aunt’s name on it –a one in six million chance.
Debra Barnes, who has written a novel inspired by her family history called
The Young Survivors, was stunned to discover that her friend Karen had received a yellow candle in memory of her late aunt, Annette Szklarz.
Debra’s mother, Paulette, miraculously survived the Holocaust because she had measles when the Gestapo tried to take her, and was later hidden by nuns in a convent.