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She has spent many years traveling throughout Europe and the US, testifying of the horrors she personally witnessed during the Holocaust.

Rusk was born in Silesia, Poland. At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, she was preparing to attend the Sorbonne in Paris when her life took a sudden change of course. In fact, Jewish life in Europe came to an abrupt halt.

The Nazi Gestapo rounded up every Jew at the local football stadium of her hometown where an officer started the selection process. The young and healthy were herded to one side and the elderly, ill and mothers with infants to the other side. Laura frantically tried to catch a glimpse of the rest of her family after the separation, but they were nowhere to be seen.

This is where her wit and survival instincts came to the fore. Laura attached herself to a Red Cross delegation helping the Jews, and this temporarily...