… Polish, German, and Yiddish; being frightened in September 1939 when the Germans invaded; moving to his grandparents’ house; his grandparents’ businesses…

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… he even went for Mincha maarev daily. I’m not sure about that. Q: What language did you speak at home? A: Polish, German. Polish more. Again at the…

… he feared being conscripted into the Russian army; the deportation of her father to Siberia when he attempted to return to his family; the German…

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… hiding. Halina's mother decided the safest place to hide was in plain sight. So she found a job in German headquarters peeling the potatoes for German…

…; getting married to Ella Rubenfeld in 1936; the German invasion; fleeing to Kraków, Poland; fleeing with his family on boxcar trains (standing room only…

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… the little sister, what happened to the little sister? My sister got killed by the Germans, and so did my mother. All right, so let's continue on. Your…

…German…

… because she spoke German; getting typhoid; being liberated by the British and living in the German officers' quarters until she recovered; returning to…

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… were Jewish-- And this was the-- --and to show the rest of the Jews-- --this was the Germans? --what they are-- oh, sure-- The Germans there-- --what…

… many others with Polish passports to Zbayyun; the freezing living conditions in 1938-1939 in the no man's land between the German and Polish borders; her…

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… father spoke many languages. EA: Obviously Russian. SS: Seven. EA: Belgian? Flemish? SS: Flemish, German, and I don't know how many other. I think seven…

… farm in country for four months after the German invasion on June 22, 1941; her family following her uncle Joseph Stieglitz to Munkacs, Hungary…

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… Bolivian passports. Left in May, train to Moscow and Kiev. Father, who had been in 11 prisons in 18 months, met them in Lvov. June 22, 1941 - German invasion…

… by bribing a German commander; the hiding of his children in the bunks of Płaszów concentration camp for 14 months; his inability to save his children…

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…,640 mostly Hebrew, and Polish, and German, 105 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:25,730 because there was no private school to force in those years. 106 00:05:25…

… making stockings for German soldiers; her memories of selections that took place in the ghetto; the Judenrat and the Jewish police in the ghetto; the…

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…:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,610 I have no documents, because everything took away from us. 427 00:14:34,610 --> 00:14:40,360 If I am not American, nothing…

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… Jews, who were expelled from Germany at that time. These were Jews who emigrated from Poland to Germany. To Germany and didn't have German papers. And…

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… had, in war, mastectomy. One day, September 1, 1939, the war broke out. I remember they were transporting the German Jews from Germany and the Polish…