Sisters Who Survived Holocaust Die Days Apart in Alabama

Sisters Who Survived Holocaust Die Days Apart in Alabama
A memorial stone at the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, Germany, on Sept. 3, 2022. Markus Schreiber/AP Photo
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Two sisters who survived the Holocaust as girls and moved to the United States afterward died just days apart in their adopted home of Alabama.

The Alabama Holocaust Education Center said Ruth Scheuer Siegler died Saturday at the age of 95. Her sister, Ilse Scheuer Nathan, died 10 days earlier at the age of 98.