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Move is woman's second attempt since Holocaust Frances Greenberg arrives at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday. BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel - When 88-year-old Frances Greenberg walked off an El Al passenger jet and into an air-conditioned terminal on Tuesday, it was her second time trying to move to Israel. The first was in 1947, on the "Exodus," a rickety ship crowded with Holocaust survivors who were turned back by the British and returned to war-ravaged Europe. "The last time I was alone, the last survivor of my family," said the tiny, white-haired Greenberg. She was 27, and the Jewish state did not yet exist. When, under British guard, she steamed back toward Europe and saw the shores of Palestine recede behind her, Greenberg remembered being "heartbroken." But she married soon after being returned to the... [read full story]
