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How a righteous Joe Biden honored my Holocaust survivor parents

JL;DR SUMMARY David Lee Preston reflects on Joe Biden's impact on Holocaust remembrance through the personal stories of his parents, Holocaust survivors George and Halina Wind Preston. 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 HistoryJewish CommunityHolocaust SurvivorsJoe BidenRighteous GentilesHolocaust EducationHolocaust MemorialsDelawareGeorge E. PrestonHalina Wind Preston

Places mentioned

Wilmington, Delaware, United States
"They were already Bidens constituents when he served as a New Castle County councilman in suburban Wilmington while still in his 20s."
Delaware, United States
"Five years later, when Biden was elected to the county council, my mother was making frequent appearances as Delawares eloquent spokeswoman for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust."
Lviv, Lvivshchyna, Ukraine
"My mother, Halina Wind Preston, was a Jewish educator who had survived 14 months in the sewers of German-occupied Lviv in 1943-44, hidden by Polish Catholic sewer workers."
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
"Wilmington Man Tells of Stomping by Nazi, blared the six-column headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer story of March 5, 1965, from Frankfurt."

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