She came one week to visit my neighbor and I met her, she told me some of the story of being in the concentration camps, her and her mother, she had the number tattooed on her arm, they took her mother but left her...
I remember this horrid story, I don't want to repeat all of it, it makes me so sick to my stomach, but somehow she made her way back to a friend's house who put her on a ship bound for America...she arrived in New York where another friend of this person who sent her met her and from there she got an education, became a legal citizen of America, and when I talked to her she had retired from her shop, a dress shop where she made the garments that she sold, she had two children and her husband died...they lived in Long Island...
Before I left PA. my neighbor told me she had died in her sleep, I hope she is with her family in Heaven, of all the people I have met in my life, this woman has had a very special place in my heart...even now that I have been away from PA for 6 years, and my neighbor died 6 months after getting the same brain cancer that ‘we don't talk about his name’ had, I still pray for her...how this woman ever became the woman she did is beyond me, I wonder if I was suppose to know this story for some reason to help me in my life...
I had a neighbor when I lived in PA. who had a friend, her name was Alice.
She came one week to visit my neighbor and I met her, she told me some of the story of being in the concentration camps, her and her mother, she had the number tattooed on her arm, they took her mother but left her...
I remember this horrid story, I don’t want to repeat all of it, it makes me so sick to my stomach, but somehow she made her way back to a friend’s house who put her on a ship bound for America...she arrived in New York where another friend of this person who sent her met her and from there she got an education, became a legal citizen of America, and when I talked to her she had retired from her shop, a dress shop where she made the garments that she sold, she had two children and her husband died...they lived in Long Island...
Before I left PA. my neighbor told me she had died in her sleep, I hope she is with her family in Heaven, of all the people I have met in my life, this woman has had a very special place in my heart...even now that I have been away from PA for 6 years, and my neighbor died 6 months after getting the same brain cancer that ‘we don’t talk about his name’ had, I still pray for her...how this woman ever became the woman she did is beyond me, I wonder if I was suppose to know this story for some reason to help me in my life...
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Thank you for your knowledge on this, it rings true with some survivors I have met over the years. I lived on Long Island for about 15 years.
I added another post on the subject just a few minutes ago. There is a segment of the population who are deniers that there was a holocaust perpetrated by Hitler and his goons.
building on your slide re: concentrations camps..
this is an EXCELLENT book; a novel based upon real stories of the women in Ravensbruck
Lilac Girls
by
Martha Hall Kelly
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-101-88307-5