Her family emigrated from Germany because of increasing anti-Semitism, and she was there for Kristallnacht when they burned the synagogue in the town where she had lived in.
"Seeing the flames like that is something you never forget," she told me.
When she said that, she had been telling me that years ago they put up a plaque commemorating that and the town had invited her back, but she didn't even reply to the invitation.
"They didn't want me and they didn't get me the first time," she was like, "so why should I give them a second chance."
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