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Post by TapToTalk on Dec 5, 2018 12:21:08 GMT -5
jackgrossman.com/www.amazon.com/Child-Forest-Charlene-Perlmutter-Schiff-ebook/dp/B07J56SRJSA while back, my cousin told me that my Aunt Charlene was working with an author who learned about her story of survival during the Holocaust. I knew the broad outlines, but, the book filled in many details that she never really shared. She was in the initial board of the Holocaust Museum in DC and traveled to schools all around the country telling her story. After the war, my grandmother worked long and hard to get Charlene, her niece, into the US from the DP camp. Charlene came to live with her and my mom when she was 16. The project started about 12 years ago and, unfortunately, she passed away before it was done.
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Post by coachgrrl on Dec 5, 2018 13:50:12 GMT -5
As I was reading it, I wondered how you were related. Thanks for clearing that up! It was a different kind of book about the holocaust. It was also interesting (and terrifying) that the poles/Ukrainians could be just as brutal as the Nazis. Truly amazing how she survived
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Post by Andee on Dec 5, 2018 14:21:11 GMT -5
I can't wait to read this book. I told myself that I wasn't going to read any new books until after Christmas but I might sneak this one in and if I think my dil might like it, gift it to her for Christmas.
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Post by marianparoo on Dec 6, 2018 2:22:54 GMT -5
As I was reading it, I wondered how you were related. Thanks for clearing that up! It was a different kind of book about the holocaust. It was also interesting (and terrifying) that the poles/Ukrainians could be just as brutal as the Nazis. Truly amazing how she survived Don't forget the Lithuanians.
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Post by TapToTalk on Dec 7, 2018 20:17:54 GMT -5
As I was reading it, I wondered how you were related. The irony is that my grandmother and all of her sisters were able to leave Russia for the US in the early 1920's. Her one brother was older, successful and had left the shtetl and frequent pogroms of the Russians. His "escape" wasn't far enough away from the madness.
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Post by coachgrrl on Dec 7, 2018 23:29:26 GMT -5
I’ll admit to being frustrated with him while reading the book. Of course hindsight 20/20 and all that
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Post by TapToTalk on Dec 11, 2018 14:29:08 GMT -5
He had tried to get out for many years before. My grandmother and her sisters were pretty diligent in applying. In hindsight, it is now obvious. Before all the horrors were obvious and there was real evidence, there was no national priority to bring in poor, Eastern European refugees beyond the quotas that were in place. FDR wasn't going to push it.
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