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Holocaust Survivor and Victim of Boulder Firebombing Attack Speaks Out

JL;DR SUMMARY Barbara Steinmetz, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, was a victim of a recent firebombing attack during a 'Run For Their Lives' event in Boulder, Colorado. 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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Boulder, Colorado, United States
"We dont yet know all the names of the victims of the attack on Boulder, Colorados Run For Their Lives event this past Sunday, June 1, where a man threw two molotov cocktails into a crowd of people peacefully marching to draw awareness to the plight of the Israeli hostages in Gaza and allegedly shouted Free Palestine."
Budapest, Hungary
"Her father was raised in an Orthodox home, went to cheder (a school for Jewish children) and to synagogue, attending services at the Dohny Street Synagogue, Europes largest and oldest synagogue in Budapest."
Croatia
"When Barbara was a baby her family moved to an island off the coast of Croatia that was part of Italy, where they spent a few idyllic years running a hotel by the Adriatic sea."
Italy
"When Barbara was a baby her family moved to an island off the coast of Croatia that was part of Italy, where they spent a few idyllic years running a hotel by the Adriatic sea."
France
"They finally escaped to France, Spain and then Portugal, where her father worked tirelessly trying to gain asylum into many countries."
Spain
"They finally escaped to France, Spain and then Portugal, where her father worked tirelessly trying to gain asylum into many countries."
Portugal
"They finally escaped to France, Spain and then Portugal, where her father worked tirelessly trying to gain asylum into many countries."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"When Steinmetzs family finally made it to America, they lived in Boston, then New York."
New York, United States
"When Steinmetzs family finally made it to America, they lived in Boston, then New York."
Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"The attack, which came ten days after the shooting of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky as they were walking out of an American Jewish Council event at Washington, D.C.s Jewish Capital Museum, has nothing to do with the Holocaust, it has to do with a human being that wants to burn other people."

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