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  • The Holocaust Remembered in California

    12/11/2009 9:24:21 AM PST · by jazminerose · 9 replies · 456+ views
    joytiz.com ^ | 12/11/2009 | Joy Tiz
    “Earl Greif was sent to a starvation camp in Poland during World War II with his parents, his brother, Lou, and his baby sister. In April of 1943, the Nazi Gestapo began clearing out the camp, preparing to move on. They shot his sister and parents in a ditch along with hundreds of other prisoners. Sixteen year-old Earl and ten year-old Lou crawled unnoticed into an oven, and hid through the day and night. They crawled out when things were quiet and escaped into the surrounding forest, where they lived for the next four months, surviving on berries, mushrooms and...