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Yvette Maria Assael-Lennon
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Yvette Assael-Lennon Obituary
As a teenager, Yvette Assael, one of thousands of Greek Jews captured by Nazis in World War II, was forced to play in a women's orchestra as her own parents were marched into a gas chamber, said Assael-Lennon's daughter, Peggy Clores, of Huntington.
Assael-Lennon, a Holocaust survivor, mother, musician, teacher and homemaker, died at home Monday of complications from Alzheimer's disease. She was 81.
Parts of her experiences have been depicted in at least one book and on screen in several cinematic and television productions including "Playing for Time," Steven Spielberg's "Shoah" and HBO's "Bach in Auschwitz," which detailed the plight of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Clores said.
The life lessons Assael-Lennon learned in Auschwitz she passed on to her children and grandchildren and many others in venues where she was asked to speak of her experience as a Holocaust survivor, Clores said.
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