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Volume 33 • Number 17 • March 19, 2015
CLAIRE DAVIS’ PARENTS DEMAND ANSWERS
A NEW AND IMPROVED ENGLEWOOD
Davises want to hold the school and district administrators fully accountable
City embarks on first rebranding effort since President Nixon was in office
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‘From Quiet Hope to Freedom’
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Luck ’ The Leprechaun 350,000 enjoy annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Judy Urman of Englewood holds the passport her father used when escaping Nazi Germany. Urman and her mother soon followed her father to China before coming to Israel and the United States.
Englewood woman recounts her escape from Nazi Germany BY PETER JONES The first day of school is never easy, but worse if it is Nazi Germany in 1933. “There were fights in the streets. They marched all the time and sang Nazi songs,” Judy Urman said. “It was not a good year for a Jewish girl to start school.” The 6-year-old, then known as Eutta, had no sooner taken her seat in the classroom than her “education” began. “That day, my teacher wore
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a big swastika on her dress,” the 88-year-old remembered. “For four years, she not once called me by my first name. The other kids were told to turn their heads when they saw me.” Urman, who has lived in Englewood for 12 years, told her story at a recent meeting of the Englewood Historical Preservation Society. Her memoir, From Quiet Hope to Freedom, details her family’s life under Nazi rule, her escape to China before World War II and her eventual life in Israel and the United States. Born and raised southwest of Berlin, Urman’s family had lived in Continued on page 3
Man gets 4 years for child porn ‘Largest collections in recent memory’
BY PETER JONES An Englewood man has been sentenced to four years in prison for having what prosecutors call one of the largest collections of child pornography in r e c e n t Eric Phillip Beyer memory. He will spend an additional six years on sex-offender probation. Eric Phillip Beyer, 30, was found to have possessed more than 35,000 images and 500 videos of children depicted in sexual acts and poses, including Continued on page 3
Leprechaun on stilts Doug Proctor gives some Irish luck to Annette Shamy, Caitlin Borders, Daniel Justin Owen, Nathan Bardas, Hope Morado, David Aguilar and Mary Boi at the 53rd annual St. Patrick’s Photo by Stefan Krusze Day Parade, March 14.