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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
[ treading gently here... ] Holocaust survivors?? Now that this last generation is starting to tell their tales, lest all survivors disappear and the tale be forgot .... I'm feeling compelled to read as many survivor books as I can. Wow.
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Yes... and no. Non-Aryans were locked up in camps many years before Hitler came into power. Most folks aren't really aware of this fact. Hitler just organized it to run more efficiently. Or the fact that under Hitler, 11,000,000 people were exterminated, not just the 6,000,000 Jews. But the Jews have a long history of being shut away in ghettos, being subject to pogrums, etc. Three of my four grandparents were tattooed, I was never able to actually get the stories behind them, but they did arrive in the US before Hitler came into power.
Stitchawl