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A horrifying photograph and an invitation declined | Letters

Mark Lewinski-Grende on being invited to attend a ceremony to honour his grandparents for saving a child during the conflict in GazaI recoiled in horror at the image of a mother in Gaza with her skeletally starved child published alongside the report on the front page of your print edition (‘We have faced hunger before, but never like this’, 24 July).Over a year ago I received a letter from the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem notifying me of their honour awarded to my Polish grandparents for saving Roza, a Jewish schoolgirl friend of my father’s sister in 1942, and providing her with false papers, by which she was able to survive the war with great courage and heroism. Continue reading...

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