1) EBI GABOR was only 16 years old when the Nazi's captured her in Hungary. The Nazi's put 80 Jews into each box car, and sent them to the death camp of Auschwitz. There was no food or water, and only a single bucket in the middle of the cattle car. The Jewish people were forced to drink their own urine just to survive. When one died in the cattle car, the other would fight to sleep on the body. At Auschwitz, Ebi saw people gassed or tortured to death, and killed by dogs.They had no breakfast for breakfast-only coffee. The coffee was laced with medicine to stop them from menstruating. 5 Jews had to share a single bowl of soup for lunch. For dinner they only got a piece of bread.
Miraculously, Ebi survived because her future husband used to throw cheese and sausage to her over the fence. Her future husband somehow got the cheese and sausage to throw to her. It's even more remarkable that her future husband managed to get the sausage and cheese while they were both in the death camp. Ebi survived 3 other death camps. Above is a picture of Ebi, three months after she was liberated from the death camp where she only had a single piece of bread and some scraps of cheese and susage to eat all day.
2) MANYA AND MAJER KOMBLIT were teenage sweethearts when the Germans invaded. They were almost captured by the Nazi's, but they hid in a haystack that was three stories high. Good thing, because the Nazi's machine gunned down everyone else. But then they got hungry, so they went to work for the German who had just finished machine gunning everyone in their town.The Nazi's took Manya to the Auschwitz death camp. Manya heard people scream in the gas chambers. She can still hear them screaming. Then the Nazi's needed laborers in Czechslovakia, so Manya volunteered. Miraculously, Majer and Manya had survived a combined 13 death camps.
3)MENDEL JAKUOWIZ (Michael Jacobs) was only 14 year old when he and his family were thrown out of their home and transported by railroad boxcar to a ghetto in Ostroweic, Poland.
He tells us that every move was watched, and that the wrong move got them killed. His job was to collect items from empty Jewish homes, where infants had beeen "heroically" left behind so the parents could save themselves. But Jacobs gave them no chance to survive, since he courageously took the babies to a tall building and he threw them our of windows for German soldiers to shoot! He was then sent from Ostroweic to a smaller camp at Ostroweic, with his brother Reuven, while the rest of his family were sent to Treblinka, where they died. Reuven escaped and was killed fighting for "liberation"
Mendel was then sent to Auschwitz, where he was greeted by the prison orchestra, while the air smelled of smoke and burnt human skin. The omnipresent Mengele in a white coat would point at certain people to be led away for reasons not told about here. Jacobs then survived Auschwitz, and was moved to Birkenau prison. Then he survived being part of a 35 kilometer, 5 day death march in the snow to the train junction leading to Mauthausan-Gusen II. Out of the 60000 who began the march, 42000 died. [Apparantly a *very* efficient method of killing Jewish people. And unless I'm wrong, even faster than gassing them. Furthermore, how can a 35 kilometre 'death march' take 5 days, in ANY conditions? Did they have detours in order to survive other deathcamps on the way?] . On May 5 1945, an American soldier came out of a tank and handed him a big chocolate bar.
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