Two-thirds were shipped to Auschwitz to be killed, and nearly one third died of malnutrition. Auerbacher travels the world telling her story so that we may never forget the tragic and horrific things that took place. By telling her story, she hopes history will never repeat itself. Many of you might not be sitting here today if he had. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help.
Privacy Policy. Password recovery. The Globe. Home News Campus Inge Auerbacher shares her story of survival. Tamra Rachol On Nov. More than 50 mass graves exist in that Latvian forest, with over 50, people buried below. On May 8, , the camp was finally liberated. Inge could no longer attend the local public school. Six year-old Inge had to walk two miles to a larger town to catch a train in order to attend a Jewish school in Stuttgart. In , she was forced to wear the yellow star, and was taunted by the other children on the train.
In late , Inge, her parents and her grandmother were told to report for "resettlement. On August 22, , Inge and her parents were arrested and deported. Forced to leave all their possessions behind, they were sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. Inge and her parents were sent to the disabled war veterans' section of the ghetto where they were allowed to stay together.
Conditions were horrendous. He was wounded badly and consequently awarded the Iron Cross for service to his country. Christians and Jews lived peacefully together until the massive riot against the Jews in Germany and Austria on November , Inge was only three years old, but her memories of Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass are still vivid.
Her maternal Grandparents had come to visit. They lived a few hundred miles away in Jebenhausen, an even smaller village than Kippenheim. Her Grandfather was arrested in the synagogue while saying his morning prayers. Her father, grandfather and other Jewish males over the age of sixteen were sent to Dachau concentration camp. Every window in their house was broken. They had to hide in their backyard shed to save themselves from the rioting mob. Their beloved synagogue was severly damaged.
Miraculously, both men were released from Dachau after a few weeks. They had both been treated very badly. Here Inge had many Christian friends. Her grandfather soon died of a broken heart both spiritually and physically. He was bitterly disappointed in the country he loved. Inge was only allowed to attend a Jewish school located a train-ride away in Stuttgart. She was forced to wear a yellow Star of David as a six year-old child. All doors to the free world had been shut.
There was no way to escape. The Holocaust was in full swing by the end of
0コメント