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  • Gerda’s Letter: Words That Would Mend War’s Wounds

    On July 6 in 1945, a 21-year-old Jewish refugee named Gerda Weissmann wrote a letter to a young American officer she had met two months earlier when his unit liberated her and more than 100 other women along the border between Germany and Czechoslovakia. The horrors of World War II were finally ending in Europe. If…