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Minia
Wasilkowska Moszenberg listen
to her personal story
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| We
Never Said Goodbye |
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| The
images of terror will live forever in my mind… |
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| During
the Spring of 1942 a series of SS actions took place. In March
of 1942, we were rounded up like cattle. Then we were escorted
from the ghetto by the SS to the other end of my town where
my beloved school was, where we lived behind barbwire. With
attack dogs and guards. |
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was a freezing day. The SS forced us to disrobe. They threw
buckets of water to freeze on the corridors and floors of the
unused classrooms so we would slip and fall when we ran as they
struck us. Then they whipped and branded us like cattle being
prepared for market. I (15 years) was marked with “A”.
My Father, Jonah (42 years) were branded with “B”.
We were threatened with death if we tampered with our brand.
Then we were allowed to dress and they took us back to the ghetto.
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| After
two weeks, the SS, without warning, rounded us up again. We
were being taken back to the schoolyard. Here they beat us and
started the final deadly separation. I was cut off from the
rest of my family. I tried to run back to my parents as others
did, but they whipped us away. |
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| I
was sent back to the ghetto with about 800 others. My family
was headed into a small classroom and kept there without food
or water for several days. Many died in those classrooms from
lack of food, water and oxygen. We all knew that my family along
with 2,000 others were sent to the Chelmno death camp. |
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| Eight
Hundred able bodies were left behind to work in the ghetto.
We never heard from them again. |
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| We
never said goodbye. |
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| This
quilt is a tribute to my family whom I will never say goodbye
to again. |
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