Jane Ulman
Survivor Michele Rodri: Shuttled from place to place until danger passed
December 21, 2016
On a Thursday afternoon in April 1942, Michele Rodri (née Rosenberg) was playing hopscotch with three non-Jewish girlfriends outside her family’s home in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine when two SS officers approached them.
Survivor Amrom Deutsch: A brush with death before liberation
November 22, 2016
Eighteen-year-old Amrom Deutsch stood in line with his parents and five of his siblings as the Jews of Sighet, then part of Hungary, were evacuated from the ghetto and crammed into a string of waiting cattle cars, more than 80 in each wagon.
Survivor Susi Kaminski Klein: Asleep in the synagogue on ‘Night of Broken Glass’
November 4, 2016
Susi Klein (née Kaminski), almost 9, was jolted awake by loud pounding on the large wooden synagogue doors. Her father, Josef, came running into the bedroom she shared with her older brother, Heinz, in the family’s ground-floor apartment in the synagogue in Reichenbach, Germany.
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