Poland, June 1942 Tarnów, Poland, June 1942. The Germans have been occupying Poland for almost three years. Restrictions on the town’s Jewish population have progressed. First it was harassment, then imprisonment, deportations, beatings and executions. The ghetto has been established, and a curfew is in force. Luckily, my father, Salomon […]
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February 1945 Planes roaring overhead, people dancing, Men strutting drunkenly down the unpaved street, Laughing, singing, shouting: “The Russians are here! The Russians are here!” My uncle is one of them, The center of any celebration. We — Mother, Uncle and I — had found shelter on a farm near […]
Adapted from my book, Amazing Journey: Metamorphosis of a Hidden Child, 2010 Unlike our father, our mother avoided speaking about the Holocaust. It was very painful for her to remember those war years. Just as Father could not free himself from those events, Mother dreaded remembering them. After our father’s death […]
My life began in Poland during the Holocaust. Born in March 1940, six months after the German invasion, I lived “hidden on the surface,” posing as Catholics with my mother in Warsaw from 1942 until 1944. My father joined us after he escaped from the ghetto. It’s the fall of 1944, […]