Newton, Sue

Vera Freidin, a Holocaust survivor, was born in Slovakia in 1929, the same year in which 1929 was the year in which Mother Teresa began her work in Calcutta, the year in which Popeye was created and when Vatican City became a sovereign state. Foam rubber and the Yo-Yo were also first developed in 1929 and that was the year when the first phone line was installed in the White House. 1929 was also the year when the German airship Graf Zeppelin flew around the world and when women were first considered 'Persons' under Canadian law. Vera's daughter, Kathy Kaplan OAM, ghost-wrote and edited this me...