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A Holocaust saga: From the sewers to a garden

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A Holocaust saga: From the sewers to a garden

David Lee Preston,
Special to CNN

Updated 12:11 PM EDT,
Thu April 19, 2012

Halina Wind with the Catholic sewer worker Leopold Socha on her birthday, March 1, 1946, in Gliwice, Poland, two months before he died.

Courage in the face of evil

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

David Preston's mother and nine others survived the Holocaust hiding in sewers for 14 months

Polish Catholic sewer workers saved their lives, and his mother wanted to keep faith with them

Halina Wind Preston was the force behind a garden memorial to honor "Righteous Gentiles"

Preston: Nazis wanted no Jew to survive, so every act of rescue and survival is sacred

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/19/opinion/preston-holocaust-legacy/index.html?hpt=hp_c2




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