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I agree.Henry Schuster Virtual book Henry Schuster was born in a small town in Germany in 1926. There were about 1300 people in the town and only 100 of them were Jews. His father died after the Nazis took power. Christian doctors were not allowed to treat Jewish patients and his father was denied medical care. When Henry was 9 he was imprisoned by the Nazis. His uncle got him out of town and into an orphanage in Frankfurt. Later his mother was able to get him onto a children?s transport to France in March 1939. He was already in Paris when the Nazis invaded. He was later moved to unoccupied southern France by the OSE, a children?s aid society. (http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/newsletter/24/hidden_children… ) He was in Limoges for over a year where the children apprenticed to learn trades. The American Quakers (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005212 ) of Philadelphia helped get Henry and some of the other children out of Europe and into the US with the help of retail giant Marshall Field and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The children went from France to Spain and Portugal and then to New York. Henry arrived in the US when he was 15 in 1941. He is one of the One Thousand Children who were brought to the US for safe haven. Henry began his service in the US Army in 1944. The Army wanted to send him to the Pacific but he wanted to go to Europe to find his sister, who had survived the war. His service brought him to the Nuremberg Trials.