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holocaust
Survivor Michele Rodri: Shuttled from place to place until danger passed
Jane Ulman
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.
Sidi Grunstein Gluck: More than half a dozen camps, then liberation
Jane Ulman
July 27, 2016
\”Whose child?” Dr. Josef Mengele demanded, looking down at Sidi Grunstein’s younger sister, Vera, age 6, who stood before him flanked by Sidi, 21, and their mother, tightly gripping their hands.
Holocaust survivor finds peace in art
Eitan Arom
June 15, 2016
Eva Nathanson doesn’t feel the same guilt her parents did for having been spared an anonymous death at the hands of Nazis, when so many others perished.
Survivor: David Wiener
Jane Ulman
April 27, 2016
David Wiener was standing on the corner outside his family’s apartment house in Lodz at sundown on Nov. 15, 1939, when German trucks abruptly swarmed the Altshtot (Old Town) synagogue across the street.
Survivor Fred Klein: ‘No name, no number’
Jane Ulman
March 23, 2016
The doorbell rang at 6:45 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1939, waking 17-year-old Fred (then Friedrich) Klein, who was at home in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, on vacation from art school in Prague.
Holocaust survivor, 81, suing El Al over request to change seats
Jewish Journal
February 29, 2016
An 81-year-old Holocaust survivor is suing El Al airlines after she was asked to move her seat because a haredi Orthodox man refused to sit next to her.
Survivor: Klara Wizel
Jane Ulman
December 30, 2015
“Seven, eight, four, five. Write that down,” Dr. Josef Mengele instructed a nearby guard as a naked and painfully thin Klara Wizel — then Iutkovits — stood before the Auschwitz doctor in yet another selection, her drab, gray dress draped over her right arm, her tattooed left arm outstretched.
Roman Polanski, 10 other Hollywood Jews open up about surviving Holocaust
Jewish Journal
December 16, 2015
The Hollywood Reporter is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust with a feature on 11 survivors who went on to careers in American entertainment.
Survivor: Marianne Klein
Jane Ulman
November 4, 2015
\”Get out, move,” Nazi and Arrow Cross soldiers shouted in German and Hungarian as they burst into the crowded four-story Swedish safe house in Budapest, Hungary, on Jan. 8, 1945. Marianne Klein — then 13 and called Marika Roth — had escaped to the house only days earlier
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