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Biographical essay by Lucy Gliuck Jacobs, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Lucy Gliuck Jacobs describes her time in Auschwitz, where her parents perished. She was the only survivor of her family of seven children.

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Biographical essay about Magda Nissanov, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Magda Nissanov and her family were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in 1944. She and her sister were later sent to a work camp in Bavaria, and eventually Dachau, where they were liberated in 1945/

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Biographical essay about Meta Doran, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Meta Doran's family was deported from Germany to Poland in 1938. She was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1944, where her mother perished.

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Biographical essay by Miriam Zaidman Borowsky, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Miriam Ziadman Borowsky's family moved from Palenstine to France in 1938, where her father surrendered to the Nazis and was sent to the Drancy internment camp. She recounts the rift in her family after she realized her father was not returning. Her essay includes photographs of her family and documents related to her father's military career.

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Biographical essay by Perry Oehlbaum, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Perry Oehlbaum describes her time in concentration camps in Germany and her liberation in 1945.

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Biographical essay by Rachel Taylor, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Rachel Taylor describes her family's experience during the Holocaust in Poland in the Kutno and Gubin ghettos. She was able to escape with her sisters and brother with the help of a Polish priest and nun, and her parents survived Auschwitz-Birkenau. Taylor came to the United Staes in 1961.

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Biographical essay about Raymonde Fiol, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Ray Fiol is the daughter of Holocaust victims who died at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Fiol was smuggled out a labor camp and protected by a French family during the war.

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Biographical essay by Rudy Horst, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Rudy Horst was a prisoner at Auschwitz and was part of the Death March from Warso to Kutno, then transported to Dachau. He was liberated from the camp at Muldorf in 1944. He came to the United States in 1948.

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Biographical essay by Ruth Stobin, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Ruth Stobin (nee Gottschalk) was able to escape Germany in 1939 with the kindertransport to England, and came to the United States in 1941.

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Biographical essay by Samuel Newman, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Samuel Newman describes his experience during the Holocaust and being separated from his siblings at different orphanages. He was in Kyrgyzstan from 1943 to 1946, and at an orphanage in Poland until 1951. Newman trained in graphic arts and spent some time in the military in Israel. He came to the United States in 1968.

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