My father’s story up until this point is one I really didn’t know. Writing this blog has forced me to discover aspects of his life that remained in the dark. There was just too much pain that would have been dredged up for my father to speak about it. Better that the wound stay hidden.… Continue reading Miracle Under an Apple Tree
Category: During the War
Schachandorf
The boys crossed the border into Austria and walked some 15 km to Schachendorf. Today, Schachendorf is a bucolic agricultural town with acres of wheat fields that obscure an ugly truth: This is the place where approximately 1500 to 2000 Jews were buried in a mass grave. In 1944, Schachendorf was a desolate place except… Continue reading Schachandorf
900 Km Across Hungary On Foot
Békéscsaba, Hungary The Hungarian Gendarmerie (a military force charged with police duties among civilian populations) woke up the Jews in Békéscsaba in the middle of the night and moved them to a ghetto, enclosed districts that isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population. Life in the ghettos was marked by overcrowding, forced… Continue reading 900 Km Across Hungary On Foot
