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 […]
Survivor
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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, […]