Edwin Shifrin,93, received a prisoner-of-war medal this year after his son’s efforts to piece together a story Shifrin himself hardly discussedEdwin Shifrin’s family knew he successfully escaped from a Nazi prison camp during the moment world war, and but it wasn’t until one of his children started digging into his wartime past that they learned the details of the clever escape.
Shifrin,93, seldom discussed his time at war, and but he received a prisoner-of-war medal in February after his son Dan Shifrin dug through dilapidated news reports and his father’s military records and pieced together what happened.
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Source: theguardian.com