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32076. Janos Geroe
Janos was the only child born to a Jewish family in the small agricultural city of ... which was sympathetic to Nazi Germany, began enacting anti-Jewish laws. 1940-45: In 1940 the ... Hungarian army forcibly conscripted thousands of Jewish males into labor brigades. Janos' father was
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32077. Istvan Geroe
Istvan was born to a Jewish family in the small agricultural city of Torokszentmiklos, about 65 ... enacting anti-Jewish laws. 1940-45: In 1940 the Hungarian army forcibly conscripted thousands of ... Jewish males into labor brigades. Istvan was exempted because pharmacists were needed. In 1941 Istvan
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32078. Margit Nemeth Fekete
Margit was born to a Jewish family in the city of Szentes. In 1919 she married and had a son ... son saw each other as often as possible. Margit would travel by bus to Szentes to spend the Jewish ... the Hungarian army into a Jewish forced-labor unit and sent to the Soviet front. Germany
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32079. Mendel Felman
One of seven children, Mendel was raised in a Yiddish-speaking, religious Jewish home in Sokolow ... Podlaski, a manufacturing town in central Poland with a large Jewish population of about 5,000. Mendel ... many other Jewish refugees in Bialystok, east to work camps in Siberia. He was assigned to cut trees in
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32080. Sophie Weisz
Sophie was born to a prosperous Jewish family in a village near the Hungarian border known for ... its winemaking and carriage wheel industries. The village had many Jewish merchants. Her father owned ... Agnes, played the piano. 1933-39: Sophie's father believed in a Jewish homeland and sent money to
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32081. Bela Blau
Jewish community. Bela was the eighth child in his large Jewish family. His father was a furrier. At age ... because he was Jewish. When the fascist Slovakian state was declared in March 1939, they, like other Jews
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32082. Isachar Herszenhorn (Irving Horn)
Isachar was born to a Jewish family in the Polish city of Radom, approximately 75 miles south of ... comfortably. 1933-39: During registration for Isachar's first-grade class in 1934, a Jewish boy was ... hard to keep his mind on his work. After a year, he transferred to another school. Other Jewish boys
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32083. Janina Prot
-Jewish friends were changing streetcars at a stop just outside the ghetto. They were grabbed and asked by ... the Germans why, as "Jewish children," they were leaving the ghetto. "We're not Jewish!" they answered
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32084. Miru Alcana
Miru was the youngest of four children born to a family of Spanish-Jewish descent on the island ... school. At home the Alcana family conversed in Ladino, the Spanish-Jewish language. Miru attended a ... Jewish school, where she received instruction in Hebrew three times a week. 1933-39: Life on Miru
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32085. Rifka Fass
Rifka was the oldest of three children born to a Jewish family in the Polish town of Ulanow ... Ulanow's Jewish community had many of its own organizations and maintained a large library. From the age ... of 3, Rifka attended a private religious school for girls where she learned Jewish history and Hebrew
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32086. Herschel Gerszonowicz
The fourth of eight children, Herschel was born to Jewish parents in south central Poland. His ... -Tsa'ir, and played soccer for the Jewish team. When he was 14 years old, he left school to become ... early 1941 the Germans herded Miechow's Jewish families into a few blocks around the synagogue that they
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32087. Leon Anderman
Leon was born to Jewish parents living near Tarnopol, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire ... been active in Jewish affairs, but when the Germans deported Jews from their country in 1938, he felt ... "If I can live in that house the way it is, you certainly can." Leon and most of the Jewish
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32088. Josel Gerszonowicz
Jewish school and taking general subjects at the public school. He was 13 years old when he left school ... they settled in nearby Dzialoszyce, a town with a Jewish community of about 7,000, and a beautiful ... old Jewish cemetery. Every day Josel left the camp to work in a factory where ammunition and cooking
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32089. Semyon Menyuk
Semyon was born to a Jewish family in the small village of Komarovo in Polish Ukraine. His ... in Warsaw. Of the estimated 200 families living in Komarovo, only five were Jewish. 1933-39 ... Since there was no Jewish school in their town, Semyon's parents sent him to the nearby city of Sarny to
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32090. Majlech Kisielnicki
The second of three children, Majlech was born to Jewish parents living 35 miles east of Warsaw ... in the small, predominantly Jewish town of Kaluszyn. Majlech's father ... Germans were rounding up Jewish men for deportation to a forced-labor camp, he fled the Kaluszyn ghetto
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32091. Ezra BenGershom
Ezra was born to a Jewish family in the Bavarian city of Wurzburg. In the summer of 1929, his ... his schoolmates for being Jewish. 1933-39: Because of his "Nordic" features, Ezra was able to ... frequent places where Jews couldn't go. In 1938, one year after he entered a Jewish secondary school in
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32092. Frederic Bernard
Frederic was born to a Jewish family in Czernowitz (Chernovtsy). His father was head clerk in a ... Jewish community. In 1930 Frederic began medical studies at the German University in Prague ... caught in southern Poland in the town of Koroluvka, where there was a Jewish ghetto. Frederic got
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32093. Nina Szuster
Nina was born to a Jewish family in the Polish town of Rokitnoye. Her father built ovens. Nina ... mother leaned towards communism. Nina attended a Jewish school in the town. 1933-39: In September ... 's mother taught a class about the Soviet constitution in their home. The Soviets closed their Jewish school
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32094. Jules Izrael Zajdenweber
Jules grew up in a Jewish family in the industrial city of Radom, which had a large Jewish ... antisemitic organizations, and the seven Jewish kids in his class were in Zionist youth groups. When Germany
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32095. Fryda Litwak
Fryda was one of five children born to religious Jewish parents in the industrial city of Lvov ... schools in Lvov, and grew up in a non-Jewish neighborhood, speaking Polish, German and Yiddish ... employer harrassed her sexually; he suspected that she was Jewish and threatened to report her to the
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32096. Arlette Waldmann
Arlette's Russian-Jewish mother and Romanian-Jewish father had studied medicine together in ... so the soldiers wouldn't suspect that they were Jewish. Arlette liked
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32097. Wolf Himmelfarb
Wolf was the eldest of three children born to Yiddish-speaking, religious Jewish parents in ... grade, Jewish and non-Jewish children were separated. Wolf finished only four grades before the
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32098. Helga Leeser
The older of two sisters, Helga was raised by prosperous, non-religious Jewish parents in the ... nearby city vandalized her town's Jewish properties. Her father raced downstairs and was arrested; four ... They lived just two blocks from police headquarters. Because she was very Jewish looking, Helga had to
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32099. Erzsebet Markovics Katz
Erzsebet was born to Jewish parents living in a town on the Bodrog River in northeastern Hungary ... Jewish family. He's a joiner by trade and was working in Sarospatak when they met. Now they have moved ... Jewish men. Three months ago, German troops occupied Hungary, and now the
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32100. Fischel Felman
Fischel was the oldest of seven children in a Yiddish-speaking, religious Jewish family. When he ... Poland with a large Jewish population of about 5,000. Fischel was sent to study at a religious school. In ... most solemn Jewish holiday, the Day of Atonement, the Germans began to round up the people in the