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Mark Z. Barabak: 'You're stepping on the graves of my grandparents': Politicians open old wounds with Nazi talk

Lauren Boebert, participates in a discussion on the Right to Bear Arms during the Conservative Political Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency on February 27, 2021, in Orlando, Florida.

Esther Finder has borne witness to the worst of humanity. Parents bleeding out as their children watched. Children murdered in front of their parents.

The stories she's heard — of cruelty and degeneracy, bravery and ingenuity — stagger the imagination. As a teenager, Finder's father survived a dozen Nazi concentration camps by posing, variously, as a doctor, electrician and furrier. One time he hid inside a man-size cauldron.

In all, Finder, a retired psychology professor, has

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