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“I’ll Survive You…” — A Holocaust Survivor’s Story, Part V

As the allied armies approached, Hitler ordered the Jews still left in the camps to be killed. These orders could not be carried out,...

Slave Labor and Typhus at Dachau — A Holocaust Survivor’s Story:Part...

Jack Welner was transported to a satellite work camp of Dachau in August of 1944. Andrzej Strzelecki writes in The Deportation of Jews from...

The Last Time I Saw My Mother — A Holocaust Survivor’s...

Nazi official Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in the first half of June, 1944. The Soviet Union had begun their...

Starvation Rations — A Holocaust Survivor’s Story: Part II

The angel of death in Lodz Ghetto was hunger. The results of enduring, unceasing hunger became simply catastrophic for the health condition of the...

A Holocaust Survivor’s Story: Part I

On July 16, 1937 -- 70 years ago today -- the Buchenwald concentration camp opened in Germany. Every Holocaust survivor has his or her...