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Local basement letters reveal chilling tales of escaping Germany

Photo from writer Mary Roseberry

By Rich Kellman

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Buffalo, NY – Four years ago, Western New York writer Mary Roseberry acquired dozens of letters from an estate sale in the town of Hamburg.

The letters were in German. They told of the people who lived there describing how they had escaped the Nazis at the start of World War II -- and of the lives of more than 60 people, most of whom lived in Germany in the years leading up to and during the Nazi era.

WBFO News contributor and senior correspondent for WGRZ-TV Rich Kellman reports