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holocaust
Survivor: Sidonia Lax
Jane Ulman
July 8, 2015
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
Jane Ulman
July 1, 2015
“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.
‘The Last Girl at Victoria Station’ a Kindertransport story
Jewish Journal
April 15, 2015
Every morning in 1936, Anne Forchheimer would bicycle to school, over a bridge in the German town of Coburg.
Survivor: Aaron M. Cohen
Jane Ulman
April 2, 2015
“Get your things. Let’s go,” the policemen ordered. Aaron (then Henri) Cohen, his parents and his younger brother gathered some belongings from their apartment in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and began walking toward the Jewish school, about a mile away.
Survivor: Ralph Hakman
Jane Ulman
March 4, 2015
Ralph Hakman was hiding in a barely noticeable house, almost a shack, when he was discovered by his mother.
Survivor: Jean Greenstein
Jane Ulman
February 4, 2015
At 5 o’clock one morning in April 1944, Jean Greenstein — ne Egon Grünstein — heard the bell ringing at the front gate of his family’s home in Velky Sevlus, Czechoslovakia
Survivor: Erika Jacoby
Jane Ulman
January 21, 2015
“Los, los. Alle heraus,” the SS soldiers yelled, whips in hand, as the train doors opened onto the Auschwitz-Birkenau platform.
Survivor: Gabriella Karin
Jane Ulman
January 7, 2015
Gabriella Karin (then Foldes) tightly clasped her Uncle Sandor’s waist as she traveled on the back of his bicycle along the back roads of Slovakia from Malzenice to Bratislava, a 40-mile journey.
Survivor: Henry Oster
Jane Ulman
December 17, 2014
“Achtung,” a German officer shouted. “Attention.” Fifteen-year-old Henry Oster, then called Heinz, lined up with his mother in a Lodz ghetto courtyard on a mid-August day in 1944.
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