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  • 'A hard life, hard suffering': Soldiers stole his childhood -- and then they did it again

    02/12/2004 3:09:26 PM PST · by Carthago delenda est · 9 replies · 331+ views
    Grand Rapids Press ^ | January 25, 2004 | Pat Shellenbarger
    In his Grand Rapids home, Jan Cydzik sat on a sofa facing the grandfather clock, his only compensation for the forced labor, hunger and beatings he suffered as a child. In no way does it make up for the misery, but the money he paid for the clock was part of the $1,500 he received from the German government for all he endured at the hands of the Nazis during World War II. "Three years of slave labor," he said, his voice tinged with the Old World. "All that I earned for it is right here. Better than nothing. Better...