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What drought? Projects abound near Rio Verde Foothills BY TOM SCANLON Progress Managing Editor
cutting off its water to Rio Verde Foothills. Even so, Graham and others scratch their heads at the city’s mixed messages regarding water. The city begged residents to reduce water consumption last year and yet, Gra-
ham, noted in an interview, “It’s not fair to tell people to ‘cut, cut, cut’ – and then we authorize all this growth.” “We tell them to cut and they see cranes. It’s kind of a disconnect.”
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Scottsdale Library director heading for Yellowstone Country
His website pays homage to Holocaust survivors
any people around Scottsdale likely echo Scottsdale Councilman Barry Graham, who believes the city did absolutely nothing wrong by
BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer
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ven though Jerry Guttman was a child when he was introduced to the gruesome reality that his parents had survived during World War II, the Scottsdale man said it wasn’t until he was older that they began recounting the horrors they witnessed. The youngest of three children of Irving Guttman and Rosie Polkenfeld of Detroit, Michigan, Jerry always felt a burning curiosity about his parents’ earlier life in Europe. “I was very young when I learned that they were in the Holocaust, but my mom would never tell a story,” Guttman recalled. “My brother was born in a displaced prisoner of war camp (DPW) in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany, so he is also considered a survivor. “My father told some stories… but most
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people who went through the atrocity didn't want to tell their story.” It wasn’t until his father passed away in May 1997 that his mother began talking about her life in the Nazis concentration camp at Auschwitz in the late 1930s into the early 40s. Rosie Polkenfeld was born in June 1927 as one of six children in Petrova, Romania, but relocated to Hungary when she was 14 to care for her mother's cousin. Upon her arrival in Hungary, she was met with the frightening presence of the German Nazi party’s growing Jerry Guttman, the son of Holocaust survivors Irving Guttpresence. man and Rosie Polkenfeld and the creator of OurHolocaustStory.com, looks over the memorabilia from his parents’ or-
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