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My mother begins her recollections of the Shoah with a conversation she had with a friend and fellow survivor.
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My mother's story of the Shoah - told in Yiddish
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My mother begins her recollections of the Shoah with a conversation she had with a friend and fellow survivor.

Leaving Poland for good, my mother travels looking for surviving family and friends. She finds very few, and learns of the fate of many of t...

Returning home after the war. My mother travels on foot and by train through war torn Germany and Poland. She finds other survivors, among t...

The labor camp at Neustadt is unexpectedly liberated when the German guards abandon the labor camp. The Germans move west to excape the adva...

The labor camp near Hamburg, where my mother spent the last few months of the war.

With the Russian army nearing Auschwitz in January 1945, the Germans evacuate the camp and force march the prisoners to the concentration ca...

Toward the end of 1944 my mother's kommando is moved from Birkenau to the main camp in Auschwitz.

My mother bribes her way into the Blue Affect. It was the building where the clothes of Auschwitz's victims was sorted for use by the German...

With the fires in Birkenue burning all the time, to dispose of the bodies of the murdered Jews, the ash turns the evening sky blood red. My...

Yenta and Sara, my mother's 2 youngest sisters come to Birkenau. The three of them are reunited, but only for a short while as disease and t...

My mother is rescued from the gas chamber by Mala Zimetbaum. Later Mala Zimetbaum escapes from Auschwitz with a male accomplice. After a few...

My mother goes to work in Birkenau, part of Auschwitz, the large death camp in Poland.

Packed into a crowded freight car my mother is sent from Warsaw to the Majdanek. Majdanek was the major concentration camp on the eastern si...

In April 1943, the Germans conduct a final aktion to clear the Warsaw ghetto. The Jewish partisans of the ghetto create the Passover uprisin...

An aktion was what the inhabitants of the ghetto called the German military operations to capture and remove the Jews from the ghetto. My mo...

With most of the ghetto's Jewish population removed, my mother was assigned to a work detail (Werterfassung in German) that gathered all the...

My mother and her daughter are captured in the Warsaw train station, trying to get to the east to find her brother. They are put in prison w...

Having no place left to hide near her home town, my mother and her daughter travel around Poland looking for a safe place to hide from the G...

The last Jews of the town and region are rounded up for deportation. My mother, fearing for the life of her daughter, goes into hiding. One...

The Germans start to assemble Jews from the area and send them to work camps. Later assemblies send them to death camps.

The lives my mother's family and the other of Jews living in a small Polish town under German occupation.

Living in a town near the German border my mother witnessed the strength and speed of the German attack on Poland.
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