In Around West Virginia today: a Holocaust survivor speaks to students, a violent incident at a Mercer County courthouse, and a feature on the Sagebrush Roundup, a Fairmont music venue and site of the state's Country Music Hall of Fame.
n A Romanian Holocaust survivor shares her story with Berkeley County students. The Nazis took the lives of several of Anna Grosz' family members, as well as her opportunity to get a proper education. Grosz, 90, said her family received one letter from her father after he was forced to join the Hungarian Labor Service, then never heard from him again. Her mother and two of her sisters were killed their first night at Auschwitz, and another sister was shot and killed later. Grosz urged the students to value their education. "Education, just that one word means a lot, because an educated person thinks and sees differently, and sometimes when a person isn't educated, they don't know or won't believe that things like this happened," she said.
n A Princeton man purposely injured himself to avoid facing a judge, according to WVNS. Joseph Whitlow, a fugitive from justice wanted in Giles County, Virginia, smashed his head into a window on the door as he approached a courtroom in Mercer County.
n The Times West Virginian featured the Sagebrush Round-up, the host of a weekly country music show in Fairmont and the home of the state's Country Music Hall of Fame. The Sagebrush Round-Up began in the 1930s as a radio show on WKMM and featured Little Jimmy Dickens and Grandpa Jones as its stars.
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