| Helen
Farkas |
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Helen Farkas was
born in Romania,as Helen Safa. She remembers the Hungarian occupation
and growth of anti-Semitism very clearly. Helen's family was forced
with all the other Jewish families in their community to move to a
local ghetto, where they stayed for three to five weeks. After being
detained in an unnamed camp for six weeks, the death march continued,
and it was around this time that Helen made her own dramatic escape.
After being housed with Hungarian Nazi refugees, Helen was liberated
by a passing American batalion, and made her way to Romania by walking
and hopping freight trains. Helen married her pre-war fiance, and
left Romania shortly after it came under communist rule. Helen now
lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and spends her time traveling
to various schools and civic groups educating about the grusome realities
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| Oskar
Klausenstock |
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Oskar Klausenstock
was born in Ciesezin, a little town in Poland. He was 17 years old
when the war started. This is when his struggle with survival and
bearing witness began. He fled to Russia, supporting himself some
times as a weaver, a blacksmith, or welder. He also studied the Russian
language and became a Russian teacher. When he came to the United
States he attended medical school and became a physician. When we
interviewed Dr.Klausenstock and asked him if members of his family
were killed during the Holocaust, he answered with one short sentence:
"YES, ALL" |
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| Gloria
Lyon |
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Gloria Lyon Hajnal
Hollander was born in 1930 in Nagy Bereg, Czechoslovakia. She helped
run the family store. In 1938 Jews were forced to close their stores.
Gloria spent time with her family in a local ghetto before her deportation
to Auschwitz. During her incarceration, she was selected for the gas
chamber. Only by jumping out of the truck that was carrying her to
her death did she save her own life. Subsequently, she was transfered
to six additional camps, and was finally liberated by the White Fleet
Rescue Opperation of Count Fold Bernadotte of Sweeden. Gloria is now
an active Holocaust educator who resides in the San Francisco Bay
Area. |
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| Max
Drimmer & Herman Shine |
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Max Drimmer and
Herman Shine were both born in Berlin and knew each other as small
children. In 1939 they were both sent to Sachsenhausen, a concentration
camp close to Berlin. Their lives remained intertwined as they survived
and escaped the horrific realities of the Holocaust.
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