Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

2002 for Friday, April 17th. In today's news, glitches are preventing $1,200 stimulus checks from reaching millions of Americans.

Virus outbreaks are closing meat processing plants.

Shortages of beef, pork, and chicken may follow,

and bodies are being buried in unmarked mass graves in New York City.

But first, the big idea. The Nazis couldn't kill her, but the

coronavirus has. Margit Buchalter Feldman was born in Budapest on June 12,

1929, the same birth date as Anne Frank. If she had not lied about her age to her Nazi

captors the 15-year-old would have been murdered at Auschwitz in fear of joining her parents and 70 other family members who

would die in the gas chambers, the Hungarian teen told the guards she was 18.

That got her assigned to forced labor instead of sent to the gas chamber.

After she was liberated in 1945, she moved to America.

Margit made a life in New Jersey.

She was never able to escape the nightmares about the mounds of bodies, and she was never able to get rid of that

tattoo on her left arm the number assigned to her by the Nazis A two three zero two nine Nazis, A23029.

She was 90 years old and she died one day shy

of the 75th anniversary of her liberation.

Her husband Harvey remains hospitalized with COVID-19.

Doctors aren't sure he'll make it. But their son Joseph is a physician working on the

front lines of the fight against the pandemic and he's doing all he can to save

his dad.

I start with that story today because it's so important to remember the human dimension of all

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