Henry Winkler Shares How His Family Smuggled Heirlooms Out Of Germany During The Holocaust
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etcanada.comHenry Winkler is sharing his family’s story about how they smuggled heirlooms out of Germany during the Holocaust. In ET’s exclusive clip, created for the Holocaust Museum LA’s “45 Minutes of Inspiration” virtual gala, the former “Happy Days” star recalls memories of his relatives covering their valuables in chocolate as they escaped Nazis. “My father asked his mother for her jewelry and he bought a box of chocolates, melted the chocolate down and covered all of the pieces of jewelry in chocolate, put it in the box, put the box under his arm,” Winkler recalls. “He then got to New York City and he pawned the jewelry, eventually started a lumber business and was able to buy the jewelry back.” Winker also shares one of the pieces that his
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