A WOMAN from Bolton who played a vital role for the Americans in the Second World War has died at the age of 97 after suffering with coronavirus. Renee Dubois, from Daubhill, was a member of the popular Bolton dance troupe, the Dinky Dots, and her mum, Anne, and dad, Jack, ran The Oddfellows Arms pub for around 40 years. Renee went on to become a young stenographer at Bushy Park for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who planned the D-Day landings from Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. She remembered walking to the War Office past Downing Street, and seeing Prime Minister Winston Churchill most mornings, when he would give her and her friends a cheery wave.
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When you don t have a menorah .
December 18, 2020
(JNS) -So you don t have a menorah. And you don t have access to supplies that would enable you to create a reasonable facsimile of one. This was the position my mother, Rachel, was in when she was 15 years old.
A great miracle had occurred four months earlier - Rachel had been selected to leave Auschwitz for a slave labor camp. After two-and-a-half months in the shadows of the gas chambers and crematoria, she was sent to Christianstadt, a Frauenarbeitslager (women s work camp). Three weeks later, another miracle: An SS officer chose her to work in the kitchen - a privileged post of war..