(Jewish Group) Vermont, Becca Balint is running for Congress, a second-generation Holocaust survivor

[Behind the Aegis]

In Vermont, Becca Balint is running for Congress with the hope (and wariness) of a second-generation Holocaust survivor

Becca Balint threw her palms up to her cheeks, mimicking her Holocaust survivor father’s horror when he learned the mailman was friendly.

“He was very, very anxious that the postmaster seemed to know a whole lot about my life and other streets that I lived on,” she said, describing her move to Brattleboro, Vermont, about 15 years ago.

Perched on her porch sofa, Balint leaned into the Zoom camera. “And the letter carrier came by and, you know, he said, ‘Oh my gosh, like, how do you do this? How do you live in a small town where everybody knows your business?’”

Balint, 54, the Democratic nominee for Vermont’s single seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, is running a campaign at once defined by her family’s Holocaust experience and seeking to move beyond it.

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