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Remembering Holocaust survivor Eric Cahn, who hid in a family’s basement to evade Nazis

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<p>Holocaust survivor Eric Cahn.</p>

We've documented the stories of Holocaust survivors in Colorado, before those stories are lost. In 2017, we met Eric Cahn, who was saved by a French family who hid him from the Nazis in their basement. At 4, he'd been separated from his parents, who were sent to Auschwitz. Eric Cahn died Sept. 9, 2022, at age 84.