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12 Holocaust survivors share their stories on a Times Square billboard

JL;DR SUMMARY Twelve Holocaust survivors, including Hungarian-born Judith Frydman, are being featured on a Times Square billboard in an initiative by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryBrooklynHolocaust SurvivorsInternational Holocaust Remembrance DayJewish Community CouncilTimes SquareElder CareJudith FrydmanAwareness Campaign

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Budapest, Hungary
"In 1944, the year Judith Frydman turned 1, Nazi troops invaded her hometown of Budapest, Hungary."
Argentina
"Frydman survived, along with her mother, and she moved first to Argentina and then to Israel."
Israel
"Frydman survived, along with her mother, and she moved first to Argentina and then to Israel."
New York, United States
"She settled in New York, where she has lived in the same Brighton Beach apartment for 57 years."
Coney Island, New York, United States
"A project of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island a social services organization and community center in southern Brooklyn that works extensively with Holocaust survivors the billboard aims to highlight survivors experiences and legacies, and to remind New Yorkers that as the number of living survivors dwindles, Frydman and others are still here."
Austria
"Other participants include 87-year-old Marat Rivkin, whose ad played as nearly a million people gathered in Times Square to watch the ball drop on New Years Eve, and Brooklynite Alfred Lock, a 102-year-old from Austria who first escaped to Budapest."
Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
"Once the Nazis invaded Hungary, Lock managed to get on the controversial Kasztner train, which smuggled Jews to safety in Switzerland the train was diverted to Bergen-Belsen, however, and Lock survived the next few months there before the camps liberation."
Switzerland
"Once the Nazis invaded Hungary, Lock managed to get on the controversial Kasztner train, which smuggled Jews to safety in Switzerland the train was diverted to Bergen-Belsen, however, and Lock survived the next few months there before the camps liberation."

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