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Archive Home > 2012 > October > 07 > Venezia wrote about horrors of Auschwitz

Venezia wrote about horrors of Auschwitz

By Dennis Hevesi / The Bulletin
October 7, 2012

Shlomo Venezia was one of the first Jews to climb out of the freight car when it came to the end of the line at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on April 11, 1944, his mother crammed behind him. Two blows from a German guard’s baton struck him in the back of the neck.

“When I....

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