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

Joseph Alexander was born in November 1922 in Kowal, Poland. He had a good life there until 1939. They belonged to...

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

Mala [Annotator's Note: née Gerstner] Geldner came from Chrzanów, Poland. The war started in 1939 [Annotator's Note:...

Benjamin Lesser arrived at Birkenau after a long journey in a cattle car. It was adjacent to Auschwitz. Birkenau was...

Judah Samet had a difficult time connecting with Israel as an Orthodox Jew. He was eight years old at the time he...

Zhanna Dawson experienced constant bombing when the Germans invaded [Annotator's Note: Germany invaded Soviet Russia in...

His family knew the Germans were advancing into Poland, and Alexander White said they were scared. When Hitler [...

Eduardo Alberto Peniche Carvajal rejoined his outfit [Annotator's Note: 81st Airborne Antiaircraft Battalion, 101st...

David S. Wisnia was living in the Warsaw Ghetto [Annotator’s Note: Warsaw, Poland] when one day, he returned home to...

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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