“When a group went to the gas chamber, there were occasionally extra rations. I actually looked forward to this. Can you imagine waiting for people to die so you can get a one-inch piece of rotten potato better fit for pigs than humans? You really became an animal there. I was terribly ashamed, and still am.” 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.
A trip to the gas chamber for some meant extra rations for others
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter