Survivor: Harry Magid
Jane Ulman
February 27, 2013
\”The Jews are going to be taken from the ghetto and killed.”
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Survivor: Regina Hirsch
Jane Ulman
September 12, 2012
“Leave your possessions. We will bring them to you,” a Jewish commando greeted the trainload of Jews arriving at Auschwitz. He pointed to Regina Landowicz’s mother: “Too old.” And to her sister Lillie: “Too young.” Sally, another sister, took scissors from her rucksack and quickly trimmed their mother’s hair and lopped off Lillie’s braids as German soldiers shouted, “Raus, raus!” (Out, out!) On the platform, a German soldier tried to grab Lillie from their mother’s arms, but their mother clutched her tightly, even as he beat her.
Survivor: Gitta Seidner Ginsberg
Jane Ulman
June 6, 2012
Gitta Seidner — known at the time by the Christian name Jannine Spinette — was abruptly awakened around 4:30 a.m. by a large commotion outside her farmhouse bedroom in Waterloo, Belgium. \”No, no, no. What do you want with my goddaughter?\” she heard her godmother, Alice Spinette, say. SS soldiers then kicked open the door and pulled the crying girl from her bed. \”She\’s not Jewish,\” Alice insisted. The soldiers didn\’t listen. They ordered Alice to get Gitta dressed and drove them to SS headquarters in Brussels.
Survivor: Jack Seror
Jane Ulman
May 23, 2012
Jack Seror didn’t know what to do. He was 25 and knew he had to leave Salonika; it wasn’t safe for Jews. And now a contact from the Greek resistance had come to fetch him. Jack stood with his parents in their living room, crying. They hugged, kissed and hugged some more. “We have to leave,” the contact said. Half of Jack wanted to stay with his parents; the other half wanted to escape. Finally, his father, with tears in his eyes, said, “Go. And remember, if you survive, to say Kaddish for us.”
Survivior: Julia Moshe
Jane Ulman
April 11, 2012
In early October 1943, a day or two after Rosh Hashanah, Julia Moshe — née Conti — was walking to her bookkeeping job at the Atlas Watch Co. in Volos, Greece, when she heard footsteps behind her. “Mademoiselle, don’t turn around your head,” a male voice warned. “Yesterday SS soldiers came to city hall asking for a list of the Jewish people.” Julia started trembling. She recalled her mother’s words, “If the Germans come here, it’s OK if they take us.” Julia gave notice at work and hurried home. “Please don’t say no,” she begged her mother. “We have to go from here.”
I remember Kristallnacht — 70 years later
Jewish Journal
November 7, 2008
\”Vati, Vati,\” I call down. \”If they take you, I\’m going with you!\” My mother has reached the door. As she opens it, she and the door are hurled against the wall. Nazis, half a dozen of them, with rifles, rush up the steps.\n\n
In ‘Adam Resurrected,’ Jeff Goldblum reanimates controversial Shoah survivor
Naomi Pfefferman
October 30, 2008
In order to play the lead in \”Adam Resurrected,\” Jeff Goldblum said he spent \”months crying and crawling around on all fours.\”
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9/11 Museum Head Uses Shoah Lessons
Matthew E. Berger
April 27, 2006
For more than two decades, Alice Greenwald has been helping to give people a palpable understanding of the Holocaust through her work with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
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