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SANDOR KIRSCHE, WHO DIED IN CHICAGO last month (please see obituary, page 11), was 18 years old when he and his family were forced by Nazi SS soldiers into a ghetto in Uzhgorod, which was then a part of Hungary.
In April 1944, the Nazis had concentrated some 25,000 Jews from the Uzhgorod area into a brick factory and lumber yard in Uzhgorod under conditions of terrible privation, according to the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.We came to a place where they gave us a shower, which they called disinfection. They took us out of the shower, lined us up, and gave us a plain cotton, blue-and-white striped uniform, without any underwear. Then they gave us a pair of shoes. The top of the shoes was made of cloth and the bottom of wood.See the full content of this document
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Shavuos 1944
SANDOR KIRSCHE, WHO DIED IN CHICAGO last month (please see obituary, page 11), was 18 years old when he and his family were forced by Nazi SS soldiers into a...
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