Monday, 25 April 2011

Why an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor has become a heroine to young Africans

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Hilde Back's £10 donation to a Kenyan child inspired a move to improve scores of loves, a new documentary reveals

To her friends, Hilde Back was a quiet, elderly Jewish woman who used to teach pre-school children and had lived alone for 35 years. But to Chris MBuru she was "an angel who had walked into my life and fixed it".

Back, now 88, is the star of Jennifer Arnold's new documentary, A Small Act, after she unwittingly inspired the largest educational fund in Kenya.

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 Hilde Back (right) with director Jennifer Arnold and Chris Mburu

 

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