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Marthe Cohn left school and became a modiste, or hat maker, with her sister in the center of Metz, France. Her sister...

Itka Zygmuntowicz had no information and no idea about the war or world outside of Auschwitz. A girl was there [...

Luna Kaufman came in contact with the concentration camp commandant. She had an embarrassing experience. She was...

Maurice Zolkower had promised to marry his girlfriend, so he finalized the nuptials in six weeks [Annotator’s Note:...

There were 2,000 Czech girls taken from Auschwitz at the time Judith Altmann left. From Gelsenkirchen, the prisoners...

Ivan Bodis-Wollner was put on trains and taken from Bergen-Belsen [Annotator's Note: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp...

Arthur Fishman's bunk [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Robinson (DD-562)] was near the engine room below deck. He...

Benjamin Lesser had arrived at the Dachau concentration camp in total exhaustion [Annotator's Note: following the...

Alexander Bialywlos White was born in June 1923 in southern Poland. His parents, two brothers and sister were all...

Eric Kahn was born in July 1929 in Wiesbaden, Germany. His father was from an observant Jewish family and fought in the...

Zhanna Dawson and her sister reached the rail station after a 25 kilometer walk [Annotator's Note: the two girls had...

Ghislaine Hegerty became more responsible as a result of World War 2. She saw death and destruction during the war. She...

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