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Daan de Leeuw
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Leon Merrick (Lajb Kuśmirek)
Leon Merrick was born Lajb Kuśmirek to a Jewish family in Zgierz, Poland, a city well known for its textiles. His father Szmuel worked for a textile factory, and his mother, Esther (Estera) (née Blimbaum) was a housewife and cared for Leon and his younger brother, Motel.
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Esther Neustadt
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Helen Luksenburg: Survival in the Camps
Helen Luksenburg discusses daily life, spiritual resistance, and forced labor in Gleiwitz, a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Leon Merrick: Evacuation and Arrival at Buchenwald
In December 1944, as the Soviet army approached the slave labor camp in Poland where Leon Merrick was imprisoned, the Germans evacuated him to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Leon shares his recollections of the evacuation and his first day in Buchenwald.
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Henry Greenbaum: Attempting Escape from a Slave Labor Camp
Henry Greenbaum discusses his attempt to escape from a slave labor camp near Starahowice, Poland, with his sister Faige and a Jewish policeman in July 1944.
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Dr. Christopher R. Browning
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Livia Shacter
In August of 1944, Livia and her family were taken to Auschwitz. After four months in Auschwitz, she was deported and forced into slave labor at Fallersleben. In April of 1945, Livia was liberated and eventually came to the United States in 1947.
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Ms. Lauren Fedewa