Survivor Story: Our Synagogue Was Their Stable

“Within two days of the 1941 invasion of Poland, Germans were in my hometown, using the synagogue as a stable, destroying Jewish symbols, and demanding that Jews be identified by a Star of David. We were moved by peasant cart to the Mlawa ghetto, finding the place empty because previous inhabitants had all been transferred to Auschwitz.” Read about two Holocaust survivors, German Jewish newlyweds sent to America by their parents to have children to “save our people,” in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Nazis and their sympathizers desecrated Jewish synagogues, homes, and businesses
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn before the Nazi slaughter begins

Author: annsepstein@att.net

Ann S. Epstein is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays.

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