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David Lee Preston

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Child of survivors. Follow my journey: DavidLeePreston.com

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Thanks to Adam Bell for mentioning me in his fine coverage of last week’s outstanding 44th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy for Jewish News Syndicate. It was a privilege to participate.jns.org/digging-for-fa… via Jewish News Syndicate

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80 years since liberation of Auschwitz: My father, Auschwitz tattoo #160581, survived 14 months there, but he was not liberated there. He was liberated at Buchenwald. Here is my 1985 The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine article, "Journey To My Father's Holocaust." bit.ly/3HxdSNt

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RIP: Tony Brown, 75, a self-taught bassist who shone on @BobDylan’s iconic 1975 album “Blood on the Tracks,” died March 3 of lung cancer. A Philadelphia native who lived in Brewster, Putnam County, NY, he requested cremation and no funeral, according to his wife, Babette Holland.

RIP: Tony Brown, 75, a self-taught bassist who shone on @BobDylan’s iconic 1975 album “Blood on the Tracks,” died March 3 of lung cancer. A Philadelphia native who lived in Brewster, Putnam County, NY, he requested cremation and no funeral, according to his wife, Babette Holland.
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April 11 marks 80 years since my father, a walking skeleton weighing 80 pounds, was liberated from Buchenwald by American troops. And tomorrow begins Pesach 5785, the Passover festival that honors the Jews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt. youtu.be/FLHI-4H8RAo?si… via YouTube

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I am deeply saddened to learn that my dear friend Jacob Brandelstein, 78, died of pneumonia in January. Here is my 31-minute interview with Jacob and his wife, Rachel, last June at their home in the northern Israeli village of Kfar Vradim: youtu.be/iAsmfIMVlFU?si… via YouTube

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My 1st published writing on the Holocaust was 47 years ago today Columbia Missourian front page. I was 23. I'm including snapshots of my parents from our July '77 Israel trip, focus of my piece. Tonight begins Yom HaShoah, the day on which we remember the tragedy that made me who I am.

My 1st published writing on the Holocaust was 47 years ago today <a href="/CoMissourian/">Columbia Missourian</a> front page. I was 23. I'm including snapshots of my parents from our July '77 Israel trip, focus of my piece. Tonight begins Yom HaShoah, the day on which we remember the tragedy that made me who I am.