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Biographical essay by Rudy Horst, 2014

Date
2014
Description

Rudy Horst was a prisoner at Auschwitz and was part of the Death March from Warso to Kutno, then transported to Dachau. He was liberated from the camp at Muldorf in 1944. He came to the United States in 1948.

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Biographical essay by Judy Newman, 2014

Date
2014
Description

Judy Newman describes her early life in an orphanage in Poland, and went to Israel in the 1950s, where she met her husband.

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Biographical essay by Lucy Gliuck Jacobs, 2014

Date
2014
Description

Lucy Gliuck Jacobs describes her time in Auschwitz, where her parents perished. She was the only survivor of her family of seven children.

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Biographical essay by Shirley Weiss, 2014

Date
2014
Description

Shirley Weiss describes her childhood housed in army barracks in the ghetto in Beregszasz (Berehove), Hungary. She was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and several other camps, and eventually liberated from Terez?n in 1945. She came to the United States via Sweden.

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Biographical essay by Eva Weisz Vayda, 2014

Date
2014
Description

Vayda's essay describes her young-adulthood in Hungary, and being sent to Birkenau camp in 1944, and successive camps afterward. She came to the United States in 1956 with her husband and children.

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Biographical essay by Sidney Barouch, 2014

Date
2014
Description

Sidney Barouch describes his experience during World War II living in Tunis, Tunisia, which was a French colony. Barouch discusses the facets of the war front in northern Africa, and the experiences of his family as Jews and business owners.

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