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From 1979 to his death, Shapell, his wife and family paid an annual visit to
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at the end of the war, for sixty-five years. They had three children: Rochelle, Benjamin and Irvin. They resided in Los
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throughout the rest of the war. By the end of the war, most of his family members had been murdered by the Nazis, except for one brother,
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Holocaust Memorial Museum: The David and Fela Shapell Family: Securing the Past, Building for the Future
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