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Lonez Annoule's search for his 6-year-old daughter Lodz began minutes after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti. He was about to prepare to send the little girl, an American citizen, back home to Miami when catastrophe struck. Annoule was on his way back from his trip to sell used clothing in the southwestern city of Petit-Goâve. His bus came to a halt because piles of dead bodies were blocking the road. "When I saw those bodies, I only thought of one thing - my daughter," says Annoule, 37. "I walked all night, nonstop, from...
...hired neighborhood men to pull concrete blocks with their bare hands, looking for any sign of Lodz. They worked for two straight weeks. The search for the little girl was then turned over to the U.S. military's mortuary affairs, a unit that began looking for the remains of American victims of the quake in the beginning of March. The team has since recovered the remains of 52 Americans, but not Lodz's. This week, about 2½ months after the quake, it gave up. (See pictures of the destruction in Port-au-Prince...
Annoule says he is planning a memorial service for his daughter on April 16, which would have been Lodz's seventh birthday. He recalls the frantic efforts to find her weeks ago. Each dust-covered body pulled out, Annoule hoped would be his daughter. "While looking for Lodz, I saved five children but lost mine." Looney thinks of all the countrymen he helped recover and repatriate. "But she was the only one," he says. "It's the only case that's going to haunt...
...entered the directing program at the renowned Lodz Film School in Poland. As a student, Polanski wrote and directed several short films; Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) won five international film awards...
...eternal poor of these cities, many of whom lived in great cavernous chambers in the dank and gloomy cellars, were dead. The fur-coated Jewish factory owners of Lodz, the Budapest lawyers, the Viennese physicians were dead. Throughout the countryside, through the 33 all-Jewish villages of the Crimea, through the many little Polish towns, like Brzeziny, which was 98% Jewish in 1939, no Jew was left alive...