Holocaust survivor to speak at Shir Shalom, recalls 20 months in hiding

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Holocaust survivor to speak at Shir Shalom, recalls 20 months in hiding

By Margie Elsberg, Special to the Standard Fran “Fay” Malkin was four when she and her mother, Lea Maltz Letzter, went into hiding in a hayloft above a pigsty behind a home at No. 4 Street of Our Lady, in the town of Sokal, Poland. Nazis had poured into Sokal in the autumn of 1939, and the following June, little Fay’s father, Eli Letzter, was one of 400 Jewish men and teenage boys who were ordered to report for a work detail. But there was no wo…