WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) – Ukraine played a role in the Holocaust as many Jews from Poland fled there trying to escape the Nazis. A retired doctor in West Hartford shared the story of his childhood in Ukraine and explains how the current war is bringing back painful memories. WWII changed everything from Leon Chameides. He was a 3-year-old Jewish boy in South-Western Poland and experienced his first glimpse of anti-Semitism in 1941. “There was a lot of beatings, humiliation. I remember the screams, I remember my grandmother whose teeth were knocked out, and her face was bloodied. I remember...
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