EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHTFünfteichen"My comrades and the Kapos liked to “visit” me because I was permitted without supervision to draw electrical equipment from the stores. It was 1944 and…
Julie Kangisser29th September 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Gross Rosen The Rabbi of Kromolow (1) and the Rabbi of Zawiercie, Rabbi Shlomo Elimelech Rabinowitz (2) coming out of Katowicz railway station “Among a…
Julie Kangisser10th November 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Gross Rosen “On another occasion, I volunteered to unload bread because I had heard that the reward for this was a big piece of bread.…
Julie Kangisser10th November 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Death train to Flossenbürg “Our Kapos fobbed us off with assurances that rang hollow: that by evening we would reach our new camp, and there…
Julie Kangisser16th November 2017
EXCERPT FROM THE LONG NIGHT Leonberg Leonberg 1944-54 “I arrived in Leonberg in March 1945. It was snowing and raining when they unloaded us from the cattle trucks in Leonberg…
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 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 “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
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
