The letter, dated Jan. 23, was sent to the EPA in connection with the burned-out grain elevator located at 17th and Champaign. The elevator was destroyed by fire Oct. 31. Since then, the city has ...
I never got to meet my grandfather Ludvig, who survived the Holocaust, or his mother Rachel. They were put onto a cattle cart to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. Ludvig, who was about 15 at the time, ...