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Police: War Hero Preys on Neighbor

Elderly Holocaust survivor swindled, abandoned in Poland

(Newser) - A Holocaust hero who with his brothers saved 1,200 Jews in one of the largest  armed rescues during World War II is accused of bilking a survivor of about $250,000, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Aron Bell dumped a 93-year-old Catholic survivor at a nursing home in Poland...

Snow-Stranded Couple Rescued After 12 Days

Left will for kid, struck out on snowshoes made of car cushions

(Newser) - A couple stranded for 12 days in a snowy Utah canyon was finally rescued yesterday as they hiked out wearing snowshoes fashioned from car seat cushions, reports CNN. Thomas and Tamitha Garner had taken a trip to photograph wild horses when their truck broke down. They wrote out a will...

9/11 Survivor's Story May Be Tall Tale

Details don't add up in World Trade Center escapee's account

(Newser) - Since September 11, 2001, Tania Head has made a name for herself as one of few people to escape from the upper floors of the World Trade Center, and has devoted much time to organizing survivors' networks and speaking of her experience. But recent inquiries suggest Head may have fabricated...

WTC Victims' Families Grieve All Over Again

Remains continue to be found and identified, even 6 years later

(Newser) - Many of those affected by the 9/11 attacks are still burying loved ones as remains are found and slowly identified, making closure hard to achieve, the Boston Globe reports. "How many times are you going to bury somebody?" asks the widow of a man killed in the World Trade...

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