"One of L.A.'s last Polish Holocaust survivors." Now 96, Andrew Stefanski lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland: ‘I am surviving.'
Photographs by Madeleine Hordinski for the Los Angeles Times.
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"One of L.A.'s last Polish Holocaust survivors." Now 96, Andrew Stefanski lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland: ‘I am surviving.'
Photographs by Madeleine Hordinski for the Los Angeles Times.