Saul Dreier, fresh out of rehab after hip surgery. was ready for an interview, and the 99-year-old showed it by diving right into the story, one he's told many times , the USA Today website reports on Feb.24, 2024. It wasn't the story of his idyllic childhood in Krakow, Poland. Or how that was shattered when World War II broke out, or how he and his family were forced like hundreds of thousands of other Jews into ghettos as Nazis occupied the country.
Instead, Dreier, who's played all over the world with his Holocaust Survivors Band, launched energetically into the story of how he started his first band a decasde ago , at the tender age of 89.
He told USA Today from his home in Coconut Creek, Florida that he thought of ways to educate people about the Holocaust, to fight antisemitism, to advocate for peace and tolerance, he decided his longtime love for music would be the way to win hearts.
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