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Mary Gale kept her Jewish identity secret for 70 years
There is a list of horrors rattling around inside Mary Gale’s head. The 86-year-old tells me the story of her life, starting from the happy beginning as a girl growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in Lodz, Poland, a family that, like so many other Jewish families would be torn apart by the horrors of the Holocaust. But Mary Gale has spent the past 70 years living with a burdensome secret, a lie she no longer wishes to conceal. She can pinpoint exactly when the lie began because it had to begin somewhere in order for her to survive. Her father, Menachem, obtained false identity papers for the family and, in 1939, at the stroke of a forger’s pen Miriam Zimmerman — a blond-haired, blue-eyed Polish Jew — became Mary Plochocka, a blond-haired, blue-eyed Polish Gentile. It was a sleight of hand that ultimately saved Miriam Zimmerman’s life and a life-giving lie she continued to live with even after the war.Jeannette Pellerin perd sa place au CA | Actualités | L'Information du Nord Sainte-Agathe
Charlie Reynolds 'retired' in the 1980s but got up early every morning to help his son run the family store He will retire next year at the same time as his son Charlie jnr who will be 65 Charlie jnr has had just ONE holiday in the last 50 years By Rob Cooper UPDATED: 14:13 GMT, 28 January 2012 Britain's oldest newsagent is still working aged 96 - and was still doing his paper round until he was 88. Charlie Reynolds, who started delivering papers 64 years ago, still gets up at 6am every day to cycle to his family shop in Swindon, Wiltshire. The business, Reynolds Newsagent, is now run by his son Charlie jnr, 64, who opens up at 4.45am every day and works a staggering 76 hour week. Britain's oldest newsagent: Charlie Reynolds, 96, still gets up at 6am every morning to work with his son in the newsagents in Swindon, Wiltshire
Oldest newsagent in Britain still working aged 96 (... and he only quit being a paperboy aged 88)
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Les coupes de cheveux changent. Mais pas Cesare Barone. Un demi-siècle après avoir ouvert le salon Fygaro, le barbier de 72 ans est toujours fidèle au poste, ciseaux en main. «La seule chose qui a changé, c'est la couleur de mes cheveux.
Salon Fygaro: de Perry Como à René Lévesque | Jean-Christophe Laurence | Montréal
Depuis toujours, à Snowdon | Marie-Claude Lortie | Actualités
Un demi-siècle de musique italienne | Jean-Christophe Laurence | Musique
Une bouchée du Mile-End de Mordecai | Marie-Claude Lortie | Montréal
«J'avais 12 ans. Je travaillais la fin de semaine, dit-il. Au début, je faisais les ourlets des pantalons.

