June 15, 2001
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune
On June 15, 2001, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on Helga Newmark, who played with Anne Frank as a girl and who, along with her family, was taken to a concentration camp. "She lost her father, her grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and...she lost her faith in God...[But] when she was in her 50s, [she began a] journey [that] led her to want to be a rabbi...In May 2000, she was ordained in the Reform movement, the first female Holocaust survivor to be a rabbi."