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Letters of Note
While other children were playing jacks and hopscotch with their peers, five-year-old Michele Willner Levy was playing the quiet game with her mother. “We’d stand against an inside wall and we weren’t allowed to speak,” she recalls. “We’d only whisper until she felt that things were clear.” It really wasn’t a game at all. The year was 1944. World War II was raging. Michele and her mother, Frieda,…
Letters to Frieda
As an Emmy Award-Winning News Reporter and Docujournalist for WFMZ-TV and President of Julian Farris Films, Jaccii Farris has come across amazing stories. She’s produced award-winning documentaries like Rhoads Opera House Fire; The Legacy of a Tragedy; Aftershocks: Earthquake in Haiti; and Timebomb: Allentown Gas Explosion. But her latest project, Letters to Frieda is one of even greater importance. Farris…