{"id":235,"date":"2024-04-12T21:56:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T01:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/?p=235"},"modified":"2024-11-26T15:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T20:26:20","slug":"holocaust-survivor-shares-message-of-peace-and-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Survivor Shares Message of Peace and Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kt-svg-icons235_8cfd00-e3 .kt-svg-item-0 .kb-svg-icon-wrap{color:var(--global-palette4, #2D3748);font-size:50px;}.wp-block-kadence-icon.kt-svg-icons235_8cfd00-e3{justify-content:flex-end;gap:var(--global-kb-gap-xs, 0.5rem );}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-icon kt-svg-icons kt-svg-icons235_8cfd00-e3 alignnone\"><style>.kt-svg-item-235_f80895-c2 .kb-svg-icon-wrap, .kt-svg-style-stacked.kt-svg-item-235_f80895-c2 .kb-svg-icon-wrap{font-size:25px;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-single-icon kt-svg-style-default kt-svg-icon-wrap 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The game involved finding four pebbles everyday, that represented her mother, father, brother, and herself. She believed if she found four pebbles a day it would mean her and her family would survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0fec\">In 1996, Blumenthal Lazan published a memoir of her experience titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/four-perfect-pebbles-lila-perlmarion-blumenthal-lazan\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Four Perfect Pebbles<\/a>.\u201d There is also a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7gk-A7YF_F4\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">song<\/a>&nbsp;of the same name based on her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8a29\">A week before Bergen-Belsen was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945, Blumenthal Lazan and her family were sent to Auschwitz in train cars with no food or water. 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