At Congregation Beth Sholom on Sunday afternoon, Patricia Weil Coates flipped through slides of photos of her mother, art of women who survived concentration camps, and photos of the concentration camp her mother survived.
Weil Coates was the keynote speaker for the synagogue's Holocaust Remembrance Day program, a duty she knew was coming as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindled.
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