8 - Werterfassung

The Bleeding Sky-Recollections of the Shoah by Louis Brandsdorfer

Jun 4, 20087:54Religion & Spirituality

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

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