When Winona Horowitz was a little girl, she used to sleep in the doorway of her parents’ bedroom. Her greatest fear was someone would knock on the door and drag them off to be murdered...
like her father’s family who perished in the Holocaust. “I think it came from overhearing stories of what happened in the camps,” says the actress now known to the world as Winona Ryder. “I was terrified of being separated from them.
In World War II, my mum’s father died fighting the Nazis in the Pacific and, on my father’s side, family members died in the camps. “I am grateful my parents told me the truth, though they had to pick the right age to tell me because it is so horrific. “But I used to go to the library and look at books about it.
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