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Deaf Ears, Blind Eyes

Uri Dromi
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Prof. Ruth Linn is a psychologist and dean of the school of education at the University of Haifa. She has an extremely busy schedule, but in the past few years, she has been focusing her attention on one thing: the escape of two men from Auschwitz. In 1987, Linn saw Claude Lanzmann's film "Shoah" on Israeli television, in which a man named Rudolf Vrba recounted the story of his escape from the extermination camp. Linn was stunned. A graduate of the Reali High School in Haifa, one of the country's most prestigious schools, she had no idea that anyone had ever escaped from there and was still alive. Why hadn't she ever been taught about such an act of heroism?

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