My name is Renee Bornstein, nee Koenig. I was born in Strasbourg in 1934. When I was five years old, I moved with my parents, my elder sister, Helen, and…
Julie Kangisser28th December 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Journey to freedom “We stopped hugging one another. Our bodies and souls were beaten and crushed, utterly drained and exhausted. The heavy snow fell remorselessly,…
Julie Kangisser16th November 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Journey to freedom “Night fell. We were tormented more by thirst than by hunger. After the massacre of Poing we were so terrified that we…
Julie Kangisser16th November 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Journey to freedom Before trying to get home Ernst decided to go to a farm to eat and listen to the radio to find out…
Julie Kangisser16th November 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Journey to freedom “Gradually people rearranged themselves into groups sorted by the town or country from which they had originated. The group from our home…
Julie Kangisser16th November 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Journey to freedom “At Mühldorf Station we were loaded onto wagons. After being shunted about for a long time our transport slowly got under…
Julie Kangisser16th November 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Mühldorf “Since the camp was not closely guarded we toyed with all kinds of ideas about plans for our escape. Our camp was joined by…
Julie Kangisser16th November 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Mühldorf Ernst was assigned to the building commando joining Chaim Goldstein from his hometown “So I began my first working day in this camp with…
Julie Kangisser16th November 2017
A group of Hungarian Jews, some wearing the yellow star, pose on the steps of a building in Pecs circa April 1944 EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Mühldorf “The old…
Julie Kangisser16th November 2017
