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A poem by the Czech-German artist Ilse Weber stands out in Ela Weissberger's mind. The writer had smuggled a guitar...

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

In April 1945, Elizabeth Goldstein heard noises and saw airplanes circling in the sky. She knew that the end was near....

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

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

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

It wasn't easy for Martin Baranek to fit into society after the war because his formative years were bereft of...

Mark Rubin moved to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia after being liberated from Terezin [Annotator's Note: Theresienstadt...

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

Itka Zygmuntowicz was 15 years old when she was taken to the Nowe Miasto Ghetto. There were outbreaks of typhus there...

Judith Altman was born in 1924 in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, into a family named Bohorochaleroba [Annotator's Note:...

Peter Hirschmann and his Jewish family were an accepted part of the German population prior to Hitler's [Annotator's...

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