“Marching from the synagogue to the railroad station, we were tripped up by big stones laid by punks. Soldiers said we were being sent to Kenya, Bolivia, or Madagascar, but when we saw the cattle cars, we knew they were lying. It was the last transport 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.
Fellow citizens turned against their Jewish neighbors
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter