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The Last Generation of Holocaust Survivors

JL;DR SUMMARY As the last generation of Holocaust survivors, mostly in their 80s and 90s, reflects on their wartime experiences and life as American Jews, common themes emerge: displacement, hiding, and lingering memories of antisemitism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Holocaust SurvivorsAmerican JewsJewish RefugeesResilienceHolocaust EducationDisplacementRemembranceSt. Louis Ship

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New York City, New York, United States
"writing for a New York City Jewish newspaper, I spent many afternoons on plastic-covered sofas while interviewing Holocaust survivors over cake and coffee."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
"At a Kristallnacht commemoration at Or Hadash Synagogue in suburban Philadelphia, Ronnie Breslow tells the congregation of her first, heartbreaking voyage to the Americas at age 9."
Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
"After another uncle sponsored their passage to Atlantic City, N.J, in 1946, yet a third uncle offered them an apartment in Hollywood, Calif., where they settled."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"In her Los Angeles studio, Gabriella Karin shapes copper and clay into wrenching images of suffering."
Boulder, Colorado, United States
"Frank Kreitha Viennese Jew who had survived thanks to the Kindertransport childrens refugee programand started a happy life together in Boulder, Colo."
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
"It is a lesson, more than any other, that the Stuttgart-born Breslow impresses on her audiences."
Hamburg, Germany
"Marion Kreith was a wartime refugee in Brussels, worked for several years as a teenager in Cubas diamond-polishing industry and came of age in Los Angeles."
Berlin, Germany
"After discovering that her husband was in a camp in southern France, Kreith's mother took Kreith and her sister to Antwerp and arranged covert passage to Marseille, where they survived for months on."
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
"Marion Kreith was a wartime refugee in Brussels, worked for several years as a teenager in Cubas diamond-polishing industry and came of age in Los Angeles."
Netanya, Central District, Israel
"After studying fashion in Bratislava, at 19, Karin and her husband, Ofer Karin, a fellow survivor, decided to move to Israel; reluctantly, her parents followed their only child. As a dressmaker in Netanya,"
Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
"Israel, where one of her three children and four of her nine grandchildren still live, remains a touchstone for the 89-year-old Schupacheveci."
Antwerp, Belgium
"After discovering that her husband was in a camp in southern France, Kreith's mother took Kreith and her sister to Antwerp and arranged covert passage to Marseille, where they survived for months on."
Brussels, Belgium
"Marion Kreith was a wartime refugee in Brussels, worked for several years as a teenager in Cubas diamond-polishing industry and came of age in Los Angeles."
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"just days after the world was shaken by an Amsterdam pogrom last November targeting visiting Israeli soccer fans,"
Bucharest, Romania
"Though she doesn’t remember all the details, Schupacheveci says she and her mother survived the war moving between relatives’ houses, then marked time in Bucharest until securing passage to Haifa in 1950."
Budapest, Hungary
"And to a one, they emphasized the vital importance of Israel to Jewish survival. Here are the stories of five women who survived the Shoah—and their reflections on life as American Jews today."
Havana, Cuba
"We had nothing, says Schupacheveci, recalling how she and other Holocaust refugees would pop in and out of each others Haifa apartments, their kids mingling while the adults drank coffee."
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
"After discovering that her husband was in a camp in southern France, Kreith's mother took Kreith and her sister to Antwerp and arranged covert passage to Marseille, where they survived for months on."
New Jersey, United States
"At least we have Israel behind us, she adds. As a Jew, if you dont have Israel behind you, you cannot exist anywhere."

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