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Fortinbras Armstrong

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1. My mother, whose parents were killed in Auschwitz for being Jews

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Sun Jan 24, 2016, 08:54 AM

Jan 2016

Strongly supported the civil rights movement, with words, money and actions. She knew what the corrosive effects of bigotry could lead to, and vowed to fight it.

One thing she told me was that she had been brought up in Vienna to be racially prejudiced, and said she had never been completely able to shake it off. She described it as "a stain on my soul" and felt it gave her an added reason to support racial justice.

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