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- With the help of Lewiston Mayor Larry Gilbert, Holocaust survivor Edith Lucas Pagelson of Falmouth shows off a striped garment her mother wore in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Pagelson was the guest speaker Tuesday at Lewiston’s Holocaust Days of Remembrance; the national commemoration is May 1-8. Pagelson spoke to an overflow crowd at Lewiston Public Library, sharing her experiences in various concentration camps and warning against “hate” of any kind. She and her parents spent more than three and a half years in a variety of concentration camps. Her father didn’t survive. She and her mother were liberated in January 1945 by the Soviet Army. She credits her survival to many “miracles,” one being the time she and her mother were sent to the gas chambers and they malfunctioned.
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