29.04.2011                      25.Nisan, 5771                      Tag 10 des Omer

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Yad Vashem torch lighter tells amazing tale of survival

Smuggled out of a Nazi labor camp as a baby, Dina Buchler-Chen ended up with a gentile family but was found, returned to the Jewish people.

Seventy-one is almost too young for a person to be a Holocaust survivor, which is why Dina Buchler-Chen’s unlikely story stands out among those of the six people chosen to light a torch at the official memorial ceremony at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem on Sunday night, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“I don’t remember the hardest part of being with my mother and grandmother in a Seventy-one is almost too young for a person to be a Holocaust survivor, which is why Dina Buchler-Chen’s unlikely story stands out among those of the six people chosen to light a torch at the official memorial ceremony at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem on Sunday night, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day….