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How a picture in a newspaper unlocked childhood mysteries for two Holocaust survivors Steve Lopez © (Courtesy of Marion Ein Lewin) Marion Ein Lewin and her twin brother, Steven Hess, around 6 years old, in Amsterdam. (Family photo) Last spring, when the pandemic forced a global lockdown, Holocaust survivor Marion Ein Lewin wrote a moving piece for this newspaper, extolling the power of the human spirit and calling on everyone to summon their strength and resilience. “Celebrating Passover during the COVID-19 pandemic brings back memories of Seders spent in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, starting when my twin brother and I were 6 years old,” began Lewin’s op-ed. “At 82, we are in all likelihood the last surviving twins of the Holocaust in any case, a shrinking remnant of the 5% of Jews from Holland who were deported to Nazi camps and returned.”

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