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PLYMOUTH – When they were forced to flee Paris at the start of World War II, Muguette Szpajzer Myers’ family showed its strength of character by safeguarding the fortune of their elderly host.
Three years later, when they fled back to the same village to escape Nazi persecution, villagers protected and saved the Jewish family from concentration camps.
Myers saw an aunt hauled away by Nazis in Paris, but lived out the war under an assumed name given to her by the parish priest in the village of Champlost. She once found that same priest burning letters of denunciation against Jews.
Old Colony Memorial Person of 2020: Vedna Heywood
Emily Clark
Special to the OCM
Vedna Heywood was on a school bus with some friends near her home in Florida when two young men spat on them after verbally abusing the bus driver. She said she remembered their faces, how they called her and her friends the “n-word” and other expletives. The teenagers sat frozen, willing the incident to pass.
Her mother complained to the school, but nothing was done.
Two years later, the same two men hurled racial slurs and kicked her friend Luyen Phan Nguyen to death at a party in Coral Springs, Florida, because he was Vietnamese. The men were among five convicted of the brutal murder, which drew a crowd of onlookers who did nothing.