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After escaping Nazi-occupied France, Helene Rother reinvented herself and made bank

Timeline
Timeline
1 min readApr 3, 2017

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The intrepid Helene Rother not only managed to get herself and her daughter out of Nazi-occupied France, but also to live out a version of the American dream that, in her era, was mostly only available to men. She became a self-made success in corporate America, making salaries most men could only dream of.

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