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Non-Jewish Germans preserve
memories by saving cemeteries
Toby Axelrod
Nirit Ben-Joseph, an Israeli, and Eckehart Ruthenberg, a German non-Jew, inspect an abandoned Jewish tombstone in a Polish cemetery.
Eckehart Ruthenberg, a non-German Jew, for two decades has been "adopting" forgotten cemeteries to preserve the names of Jewish families. And he's not alone in the effort.

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