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Benjamin Lesser had taken refuge in Hungary to escape the Nazi tyranny in Poland. Although initially a place of safety...

Rachel Lazarus was born in May 1939 in Amsterdam, Holland [Annotator's Notes: Amsterdam, Netherlands]. Her father's...

Manfred Klepper had aunts, uncles and cousins who were lost in the Holocaust. That affected him quite a bit. He had...

David S. Wisnia was born in August 1926 in the suburb Sochaczew, outside of Warsaw, Poland. His father was a carpenter...

Going east to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, or Belzec, Alexander White said, meant going to the gas chambers...

Jack Cohen had a speaking engagement at a school, and a child asked him what was the important thing that kept him...

Hana Zoltz witnessed the continuing prejudice against the Jews when she returned to Poland after the war. She and other...

Hana Zoltz lived in the ghetto [Annotator's Note: the Lodz ghetto in Poland] as a young girl. She made few friends...

Anne Levy was in Lodz, Poland in 1939 when the Germans entered the city. Inhabitants thought the men would be arrested...

Edward Field had his most memorable experience with the crash of his plane [Annotator's Note: after his plane was shot...

Rosette Goldstein was born in 1938 in Paris, France. Her family moved into a one bedroom apartment where they were the...

Judith Meisel does not fear speaking her mind as a result of her experiences in World War 2. She has nightmares as a...

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