Her parents tried to hide their desperation, but Miriam Brookfield can remember anxious days scrambling to escape the growing power of the Nazis. Brookfield, 98, and a longtime resident of Whittier, ...
Outside a hospital in China’s Junan County stands a 4-meter statue – not of Mao Zedong, Hu Jintao, or Xi Jinping, but of an Ashkenazi Jewish doctor from Vienna who became a hero in China. His story is ...