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Beachwood's Betty Gold Featured in Cleveland Film Festival Documentary

Gold was one of 33 in the town of Trochenbrod, Ukraine to survive the Holocaust.

Known for her local storytelling of surviving the Holocaust, Betty Gold's experience is now part of a documentary film featured in this week's Cleveland International Film Festival.

Just last July, Gold, who is also a docent at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, told her story at to a captive audience at the Shaker Library. 

Monday night, Gold, 82, of Beachwood, was part of a festival discussion at the final showing of the film Lost Town, a documentary film about her home town and its decimation, according to cleveland.com.

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The film is one of the entries in the Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up "For" Competition. The winner of that competition will be named at the conclusion of the festival on April 14. 


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