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Feature:

Yad Vashem collects possessions from aging Holocaust survivors

Project focuses on everyday objects like a teddy bear, a diary and religious artifacts that survived the Holocaust along with their owners.

When Stella Knobel's family fled World War II Poland in 1939, the only thing the 7-year-old girl could take with her was her teddy bear. For the next six years, the stuffed animal never left her side as the family wondered through the Soviet Union, to Iran and finally the Holy Land….