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Survivor: Ester Wilhelm Tepper

In the early morning darkness of Oct. 9, 1942, Ester Tepper (née Estera Wilhelm), just 10 years old, stood half-dressed and shivering in her family’s apartment in the Radomsko ghetto, which was surrounded by German soldiers.

Survivor: Sidonia Lax

Early on the designated morning in December 1943, 16-year-old Sidonia Lax (née Sydonia Lewin) and her parents, Cyla and Isaac, left their bunker in the Przemysl ghetto, where they had been living for three months, and made their way to a building near one of the gates.

Survivor: Simone Richlin

“Just a minute,” Rebecca, the receptionist at the Laboratoire Rambouillet in Paris, told 5 1/2-year-old Simone Richlin (née Tolstonog) and her two cousins, Serge, 12, and Riton, 9.

Survivor: Masza Rosenroth

Masza Rosenroth (née Czechanowska) stood with her two younger sisters, Gutia, 14, and Surra, 11, in the courtyard of the Lodz ghetto, amid hundreds of other residents who’d been ordered to assemble for yet another selection.

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