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Survival Story

Miriam Garvil's late-life memoir

by Eve Silberman

posted 3/17/2013

Twenty years ago, Turner Geriatric Center social worker Ruth Campbell helped a client, Holocaust survivor Miriam Garvil, begin writing her autobiography. This winter, I Have to Survive: Miriam's Story, was finally published as a print-on-demand book from amazon.com. Now retired and living in Japan, Campbell is working with the ninety-two-year-old Garvil,

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