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Survivor
Survivor Amrom Deutsch: A brush with death before liberation
Jane Ulman
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’
Jane Ulman
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.
Survivor Charles Selarz: Hard labor, love and eventual freedom
Jane Ulman
October 26, 2016
Charles Selarz, then Chaim Szklarz, was standing outside with a few friends in early September 1939 when German aircraft suddenly attacked their town of Wohyn, Poland, firebombing the small houses clustered within a two-block area, where the town’s approximately 1,000 Jews lived.
Survivor Lore Rosen: Saved by Kindertransport and self-reliance
Jane Ulman
September 28, 2016
On the morning of Nov. 10, 1938, a date that would come to be known as Kristallnacht, 14-year-old Lore Rosen (nee Baron) left for school from the fifth-floor, walk-up apartment where she lived with her mother in Mannheim, Germany.
Magda Kahan: Saved, ‘because I had somebody’
Jane Ulman
August 24, 2016
\”Give us your jewelry.” The two Hungarian men startled Magda Kahan — then Meisels — and her mother, who were standing in the kitchen of a small house they shared with another family in the Munkacs ghetto.
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