Survivor Story: Bullets and Bread

“My mother and 5,000 others worked 12-hour shifts, night or day, seven days a week, making bullet casings. They were fed 600 calories a day. A Polish worker who went home at night sometimes smuggled in flour which my mother, risking her life, used to bake bread on the hot machinery. That extra bread was the difference between life and death.” 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.

Jewish and non-Jewish workers made bullets for the German army
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter

Author: annsepstein@att.net

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

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