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Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust

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All Survivors' Excerpts

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1. Prewar Life in Europe (4)

2. Anti-Semitism (6)

3. Ghettoes (4)

4. Hiding (7)

5. Concentration Camps & Forced Labor (6)

6. Escapes (5)

7. Resistance (4)

8. Liberation (4)

9. Postwar Life & Immigration (6)

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2. Anti-Semitism

Fred Platner
A teenager's Gentile friends turn against him

- Fred Platner
Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky
A rabbi recalls Kristallnacht in Berlin

- Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky
Cyla Stundel
The massacre of Jews in Maniewicze, Poland

- Cyla Stundel
Walter Peltz
Witnessing the beginning of Polish Jews persecution

- Walter Peltz
Walter Peltz
Prejudice against Jews becomes violent in 1930s Poland

- Walter Peltz
Flora Bader
Relations between Jews and Gentiles in Holland

- Flora Bader
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