Updated on February 16, 2021 at 8:43 pm
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Sylvia Ruth Gutmann, an 81-year-old hidden child of the Holocaust, sat outside of her room at the Shillman House, an independent living community for older adults in Framingham, Massachusetts, eager to receive her COVID-19 vaccine. I m incredibly lucky that I m getting this second vaccine, she said.
A few seconds after the shot, she looked down in admiration at the Band-Aid with a smiley face on it that was placed on her arm.
As a child of the Holocaust, Gutmann was arrested with her mother and two sisters and was taken to Rivesaltes internment camp. Her mother and father were later taken to Auschwitz, where they were killed, but she and her sisters were saved by a child rescue organization and brought to the United States when she was seven.
Updated on February 16, 2021 at 11:43 pm
NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Sylvia Ruth Gutmann, an 81-year-old hidden child of the Holocaust, sat outside of her room at the Shillman House, an independent living community for older adults in Framingham, Massachusetts, eager to receive her COVID-19 vaccine. I m incredibly lucky that I m getting this second vaccine, she said.
A few seconds after the shot, she looked down in admiration at the Band-Aid with a smiley face on it that was placed on her arm.
As a child of the Holocaust, Gutmann was arrested with her mother and two sisters and was taken to Rivesaltes internment camp. Her mother and father were later taken to Auschwitz, where they were killed, but she and her sisters were saved by a child rescue organization and brought to the United States when she was seven.